Arthur Machen

Quotes

• “Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.”

• “The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process.”

• “He had the dreadful misfortune to be an intellectual, and to be born in the country.”

• “It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”

Books by Arthur Machen in order

Books by Arthur Machen in the order they were published, from Thesaurus Incantatus (1888) to The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (2018).

1. 1Thesaurus IncantatusThesaurus Incantatus1888
2. 2The Great God PanThe Great God Pan1894
3. 3The Great God Pan, and, The Inmost LightThe Great God Pan, and, The Inmost Light1894
4. 4The Three ImpostorsThe Three Impostors1895
5. 5HieroglyphicsHieroglyphics1902
6. 6The House of SoulsThe House of Souls1906
7. 7The Hill of DreamsThe Hill of Dreams1907
8. 8The Angels of MonsThe Angels of Mons1915
9. 9The TerrorThe Terror1917
10. 10Far off ThingsFar off Things1922
11. 11The Secret GloryThe Secret Glory1922
12. 12The Shining PyramidThe Shining Pyramid1923
13. 13The London AdventureThe London Adventure1924
14. 14A Fragment of LifeA Fragment of Life1928
15. 15Tales of Horror and the Super NaturalTales of Horror and the Super Natural1948
16. 16Novel of the Black SealNovel of the Black Seal2004
17. 17The White PeopleThe White People2004
18. 18The White People and Other Weird StoriesThe White People and Other Weird Stories2011
    What's in it (11)

    • The Inmost Light
    • Novel of the Black Seal
    • Novel of the White Powder
    • The Red Hand
    • The White People
    • A Fragment of Life
    • The Bowmen
    • The Soldiers' Rest
    • The Great Return
    • Out of the Earth
    • The Terror
19. 19Great God Pan & XeluchaGreat God Pan & Xelucha2013
20. 20Short FictionShort Fiction2015
21. 21The Great God Pan and Other Horror StoriesThe Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories2018
    What's in it (14)

    • The Tales: The Lost Cub
    • The Great God Pan
    • The Three Imposters
    • The Shining Pyramid
    • The Turanians
    • The Idealist
    • Witchcraft
    • The Ceremony
    • Psychology
    • Midsummer
    • The Monstrance
    • The Tree of Life
    • Change
    • Ritual
22. 22Tales of the OccultTales of the Occult

Lists with books by Arthur Machen

• Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Books like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Books like The Terror