Arthur Machen is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language."
Machen was a great enthusiast for literature that expressed the "rapture, beauty, adoration, wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, desire for the unknown" that he summed up in the word ecstasy.
The Novels
THE HILL OF DREAMS
THE TERROR
THE SECRET GLORY
EPILOGUE
THE GREEN ROUND
The Shorter Fiction
THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY: OR THE HISTORY OF THE IX JOYOUS JOURNEYS. CARBONNEK
INTRODUCTION
EPISTLE DEDICATORY
MASTER PERROT'S DISCOURSE OF ALE
THE PORTREEVE'S GAUDY-DAY
STRANGE STORY OF A RED JAR
THE SPIGOT CLERK'S FIRST TALE
HOW THE FOLK OF ABERGAVENNY WERE PESTERED BY AN ACCURSED KNIGHT
THE LORD MALTWORM'S FIRST TALE
HOW A MAN OF CAERLEON FOUND A GREAT TREASURE
THE RUBRICAN'S FIRST TALE
THE TANKARD MARSHALL'S FIRST TALE
THE QUEST OF CONSTANCY
BY THE WAY
THE SPIGOT CLERK'S SECOND TALE.
THE PORTREEVE'S SOLEMNITY
THE TALE TOLD BY THE SEIGNEUR OF LA ROCHE NEMOURS
THE JOURNEY HOMEWARD
SIGNOR PIERO LATINI'S TALE
THE LORD MALTWORM'S SECOND TALE
THE RUBRICAN'S SECOND TALE
EPILOGUE
THE GREAT GOD PAN, AND THE INMOST LIGHT
The Great God Pan
The Inmost Light
THE THREE IMPOSTORS: OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS
THREE IMPOSTORS PROLOGUE.
ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS.
THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT.
NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY.
ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER.
NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL.
INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BAR.
THE DECORATIVE IMAGINATION.
NOVEL OF THE IRON MAID.
THE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATER.
NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER.
STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN CLERKENWELL.
HISTORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECTACLES
ADVENTURE OF THE DESERTED RESIDENCE.
THE HOUSE OF SOULS
A Fragment of Life
The White People
The Red Hand
THE ANGELS OF MONS
The Bowmen
The Soldiers' Rest
The Monstrance
The Dazzling Light
The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts
Postscript
THE GREAT RETURN
THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1923
The Priest and the Barber
The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita
A Wonderful Woman
The Lost Club
Nature, or, The Splendid Holiday
Drake's Drum
THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1924
The Arrow-Head Character
The Eyes on the Wall
The Search for the Bowl
The Secret of the Pyramid
The Little People
THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY
The Rose Garden
Psychology, or, Fragments of Paper
The Holy Things
A New Christmas Carol
THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES
The Cosy Room
A Double Return
Munitions of War
The Gift of Tongues
The Islington Mystery
Awaking
Opening the Door
The Compliments of the Season
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL, AND OTHER STORIES
UNCOLLECTED TALES
The Poems
ELEUSINIA
THE ASSEMBLING.
THE SEA-SHORE
THE FAST
THE PROCESSION
THE DAY OF TORCHES
IACCHUS
THE INITIATION
THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD
THE PRAISE OF MYFANWY
The Non-Fiction
THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, 1725-1798
THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO
HIEROGLYPHICS
DR STIGGINS: HIS VIEWS AND PRINCIPLES
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL
THE STROLLER
WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN LONDON
THE GLITTER OF THE BROOK
LONDON THIRTY YEARS AGO
THE JOY OF LONDON
RE-DISCOVERY OF LONDON
DR JOHNSON'S DISAPPEARING ACT
TOM O'BEDLAM AND HIS SONG
THE ONLY WAY
THE GRAY'S INN COFFEE HOUSE
A NOTE ON POETRY