{"id":13830,"date":"2014-11-18T02:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13830"},"modified":"2014-11-18T02:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T23:54:40","slug":"an-impression-of-arthur-machen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/11\/18\/an-impression-of-arthur-machen\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impression of Arthur Machen"},"content":{"rendered":"

A full scan of On Strange Altars: a book of enthusiasms<\/a><\/em> (1924) by Paul Jordan-Smith<\/a>, containing his essay “Black Magic—An Impression of Arthur Machen”. A hat-tip to the Son of Yog-Sothoth, who writes<\/a> that…<\/p>\n

The second part of the essay is, perhaps to me, the most unexpected: the author had in 1920 travelled to England and visited Arthur Machen and his wife, where Machen briefly spoke of his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde. It seems to me that I must have read something of this in one of the essays or biographies of Machen, but I’ll leave tracking that down to some other day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This may interest some, as it’s a view of Machen by an American who discovered him a few years before Lovecraft did. Lovecraft first discovered Machen\u2019s work in the summer of 1923 (S.T. Joshi, I Am Providence<\/em>, p.454).<\/p>\n

Paul Jordan-Smith’s Cables of Cobweb<\/em> book, listed facing the title page, sounds like a supernatural novel but apparently isn’t…<\/p>\n

A young Virginian, revolting against his parents conservatism, experiments with radicalism but with maturity becomes conservative”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Likewise his novel Nomad<\/em>, which seems to have been a sort of light-hearted philosophical quest story, with the hero and his companions moving through and exemplifying various philosophies. It sounds like Pilgrim’s Progress<\/em> meets Gulliver’s Travels<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A full scan of On Strange Altars: a book of enthusiasms (1924) by Paul Jordan-Smith, containing his essay “Black Magic—An …<\/p>\n

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