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In Two Volumes. Illustrated By Rockwell Kent. ... Read more

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They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them. ... Read more

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"I think you, are wrong," he replied; "there are still, depend upon it, quaint, undiscovered countries and continents of strange extent. Ah, Miss Lally! believe me, we stand amidst sacraments and mysteries full of awe, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. Life, believe me, is no simple thing, no mass of grey matter and congeries of veins and muscles to be laid naked by the surgeon's knife; man is the secret which I am about to explore. ... Read more

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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and CompanyPublication date: 1908Subjects: Corporation lawNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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My Favorite Machen
I've read quite a few of Machen's books and short stories and this one is my favorite.The writing style is beautiful and poetic and there's a sense of sinister mystery pervading the whole thing.It gave me a lovely, spine-tingling feeling.A truly great read! ... Read more

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Publisher: London M. SeckerNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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An excellent evaluation of the evidence
I have read several books on the case of Elizabeth Canning, an eighteenth century serving girl who disappeared for 28 days in January 1753. Two women were brought to trial and found guilty of holding her prisoner and stealing her stays; the latter was the capital offense. Further investigation caused the women to be released; Elizabeth Canning was convicted of perjury and transported to the United States.She never explained where she had been. The case caused an enormous fervor at the time, and at least four books were written on the case in the twentieth century debating the truth of the matter.

Machen makes no bones about his opinion: "Elizabeth Canning was an infernal liar."Of the books that I have read, Machen does the best job of carefully examining the evidence and testimony offered at various times. He throws out possibilities of what EC might actually have been up to, but emphasizes that we will never really know. Machen's habit of interlacing quotations from testimony, Britishism, and allusions that may have been more obvious in the 1920s occasionally makes the book a little difficult to read, at least for this American reader, but I would consider it essential for anyone pondering the case.For balance and an emphasis on different issues, I recommend Judith Moore's The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative, which is as biased for Canning as this is biased against her.

Treherne reaches conclusions similar to Machen, although he is not as methodical in his analysis. His book, The Canning Enigma, does offer a better narrative of surrounding events, and he reviews the conclusions of other authors, so it is a good additional source.Lillian de la Torre's 'Elizabeth is missing';: Or, Truth triumphant: an eighteenth century mystery. being a true and complete relation of her mysterious disappearance indulges in rather wild speculation, but offers the interesting alternative explanation that EC was suffering from hysterical amnesia, and her misstatements were caused by confusion, rather than deliberate lies. ... Read more

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There! Can you imagine what would happen if one submitted the above as an outline or sketch of a possible plot to our really modern writers, the veritable Georgians? I don't think that they would be cross, or snap your head off, or wonder audibly what theatre put on transpontine melodrama in these days, or say it was interesting to find that Sue still found readers. There would be nothing violent of this kind; only the slight movement of a weary brow, before the conversation flowed back to its proper channel of "complexes" and skin-disease. Because you see, the Georgian novelist knows that the stuff of which we have been talking is not Life, has no relation to Life, and in a word, doesn't happen. ... Read more

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Hard to Explain "Dreads and Drolls"
This is a collection of short pieces Machen wrote for the "The Graphic".They are mostly factual though some are fictionalized accounts of true stories.They include strange stories, bits of curiosity, oddities and even a ghost story.Typical titles: "The Strange Case of Emily Weston", "Morduck the Witch", "Casanova in London".a must-read for any Machen fan. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of The Angels of Mons (1915). In 1884, he published the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway. Around 1890, Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, The Great God Pan. From the beginning of his literary career, he espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. He also wrote The Three Impostors, The Terror, The Inmost Light, The White People, The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Red Hand, A Fragment of Life, The Shining Pyramid and A New Christmas Carol. ... Read more