Why is Arthur Machen going through such a Renaissance right now?The White People is pretty good, but I find his other stories pretty mediocre
>Why is Arthur Machen going through such a Renaissance right now?Is he?Apart from me making the hill of dreams thread and occasional mensions in the horror fiction general /lit/ doesn't talk about him much.>The White People is pretty good, but I find his other stories pretty mediocreThey vary hugely. The White People, The Shining Pyramid and the Novel of the Black seal are all great, along with his prose poems in his Ornaments in Jade but apart from those and the aforementioned Hill of Dreams his work is just alright. Like Blackwood with the untenable mysteries of nature Machen is at his best writing about weird pagan rituals going on in the welsh hills and the little people who dwell with them but outside that subject his work isn't nearly as good.
>>24891428I heard of Machen only because Alan Moore's novel last year was heavily indebted to him, and explicitly referenced him a lot within the text.
