The Arthur Machen MEGAPACK ®. Arthur Machen

      COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Arthur Machen Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. Cover art copyright © 2013 by Artanika / Fotolia. For more information, contact the publisher.

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      “Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin,” by Vincent Starrett, originally appeared in Reedy’s Mirror, October 5, 1917. Reprinted as a chapbook in 1918.

      “The Remembrance of the Bard” and “The Praise of Myfanwy” are taken from the 1918 chapbook edition of “Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin.” No prior publication information was included with that edition.

      “The House of Souls: An Introduction” originally appeared in 1922 in The House of Souls.

      “A Fragment of Life” is taken from The House of Souls (1922).

      “The White People” originally appeared in 1904.

      “The Great God Pan” originally appeared in 1894.

      The Shining Pyramid originally appeared in 1895.

      The Inmost Light originally appeared in 1894.

      The Hill of Dreams originally appeared in 1907.

      The Three Impostors originally appeared in 1895.

      The Red Hand originally appeared in 1895.

      The Secret Glory originally appeared in 1922.

      “The Happy Children” originally appeared in The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories (1915).

      “Munitions of War” originally appeared in The Neolith, August 1908.

      “The Bowmen” originally appeared in 1914.

      “The Soldiers’ Rest” is taken from Holy Terrors, but was originally published in 1915.

      “The Monstrance” is taken from Holy Terrors, but was originally published circa 1910.

      “The Rose Garden” originally appeared in The Neolith, August 1908.

      “The Ceremony” is taken from Holy Terrors, but was originally published circa 1910.

      “A Double Return” originally appeared in

      “The Terror” originally appeared in 1917.

      Far Off Things originally appeared in 1922.

      The Great Return originally appeared in 1915.

      Hieroglyphics originally appeared in 1902.

      “A New Christmas Carol” originally appeared in 1920.

      “Eleusinia,” Machen’s first-published work, originally appeared in 1881.

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      To anyone interested in supernatural fiction, the work of Welsh master Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is a fundamental starting point. In 2008, Stephen King called Machen’s The Great God Pan (included here) “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language” in an interview. And H.P. Lovecraft wrote: “Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen, author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the elements of hidden horror and brooding fright attain an almost incomparable substance and realistic acuteness.”

      We are pleased to include 25 classic works in The Arthur Machen Megapack, including many of Machen’s most famous works, and three rare poems (including his first published work, Eleusinia.”) For more on Machen himself, please see Vincent Starrett’s excellent 1918 essay, which precedes Machen’s work.

      —John Betancourt

      Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

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      ABOUT THE MEGAPACKS

      Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”

      The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Sam Cooper, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald. A. E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).

      A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS

      The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)

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      Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

      TYPOS

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      If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at [email protected] or use the message boards above.

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