"Mr. Machen, with an impressionable Celtic heritage linked to keen youthful memories of the wild domed hills, archaic forests, and cryptical Roman ruins of the Gwent countryside, has developed an imaginative life of rare beauty, intensity, and historic background. He has absorbed the mediæval mystery of dark woods and ancient customs, and is a champion of the Middle Ages in all things—including the Catholic faith. He has yielded, likewise, to the spell of the Britanno-Roman life which once surged over his native region; and finds strange magic in the fortified camps, tessellated pavements, fragments of statues, and kindred things which tell of the day when classicism reigned and Latin was the language of the country."
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Fantasy authorsHorror authorsNovelists from WalesShort story writers from WalesJournalists from Wales
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H. P. Lovecraft, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature', The Recluse, No. 1 (1927), p. 51
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Arthur Machen
Arthur Llewelyn Jones Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh writer of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. He may be best known as the unwitting originator of the Angels of Mons legend.
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