HP Lovecraft was influenced by him, and acknowledged the influence Stephen King has praised his stories to the skies. "Few people read Arthur Machen nowadays," said one commentator many years ago, "he is the preserve, zealously guarded, of lonely men who step into the gutter when the bowler hatted jostle them in the street." I think he gets a mention in Antal Szerb's wonderfully crazy The Pendragon Legend, which would make sense, as that book is saturated with Welshness and spookiness, and those are things that Machen possessed to his fingertips.īut his legacy has been extraordinary.
Machen had existed on the fringes of the fringes of my literary knowledge: the kind of writer whose name one is unsure how to pronounce (it's "makken") someone more referred to than read.
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