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== Selected works == :''In approximate order of composition, with date of publication:'' * ''The Chronicle of Clemendy'' (1888): fantasy tales within a frame story of a rural Welsh drinking fraternity with mystical roots. * "The Lost Club" (1890): short story about a secret London society and its ritual disappearances of members. * ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' (written 1890β1894; published 1894): short horror novel. First published together with "The Inmost Light" as Volume V in John Lane's Keynotes Series. * "The Inmost Light" (1894): short horror story. A scientist imprisons his wife's soul in a shining jewel, letting ''something else'' into her untenanted body, but the jewel is stolen. * "The Shining Pyramid" (1895): short horror story. Strange arrangements of stones appear at the edge of a young man's property. He and a friend attempt to decipher their meaning before it is too late. * ''[[The Three Impostors]]'' (1895): horror novel incorporating several short stories, including "The Novel of the White Powder" and "The Novel of the Black Seal", which have often been anthologised separately. Centres on the search for a man with spectacles. ** "The Novel of the Black Seal": a precursor of H. P. Lovecraft in its subject matterβthe protagonist gradually uncovers the secrets of a hidden pre- and non-human race hiding in the Welsh hills, and the true nature of a hybrid, idiot child fathered by one of them. ** "The Novel of the White Powder": a man's behaviour takes a strange turn after he starts taking a new prescription. His sister does not know if this is a good thing or a bad one. * "The Red Hand" (1895): short detective/horror story featuring the main characters from ''The Three Impostors''. It focuses on a murder performed with an ancient stone axe. * ''[[The Hill of Dreams]]'' (written 1895β1897; published 1907): novel delineating the dark, mystical spiralling madness, awe, sensuality, horror and ecstasy of an artist. Generally considered Machen's masterpiece. * ''Ornaments in Jade'' (written 1897; published 1924): prose poems, some of which hint at dark pagan powers. * "[[The White People]]" (written 1899; published 1904): short horror story. Presented as a young girl's diary, detailing her increasingly deep delvings into [[witchcraft]]. Often described as one of the greatest of all horror short stories. * ''Hieroglyphics: A Note upon Ecstasy in Literature'' (written 1899; published 1902): literary tract detailing Machen's philosophy of literature and its capacity for "ecstasy". * ''A Fragment of Life'' (written 1899β1904; published 1904): short novel. A young couple repudiate the banalities of material life in favour of the spiritual. * ''The House of the Hidden Light'' (Written in 1904 with Arthur Edward Waite. Only three copies were published. Reprinted in an edition of 350 copies by [[Tartarus Press]], 2003): book of coded and mystical correspondence. * ''The Secret Glory'' (written 1899β1908; published 1922): novel. A public-school boy becomes fascinated by tales of the Holy Grail and escapes from his repressive school in search of a deeper meaning to life. * "The Bowmen" (1914): in this story, written and published during World War I, the ghosts of archers from the [[battle of Agincourt]], led by [[Saint George]], come to the aid of British troops. This is cited as the origin of the [[Angels of Mons]] legend. * "The Great Return" (1915): short story. The [[Holy Grail]] returns to a Welsh village. * ''The Terror'' (1917): short horror novel. Rural supernatural horror set in wartime Britain, where a series of unexplained countryside murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible. * ''Far Off Things'' (1922): first volume of autobiography. * ''Things Near and Far'' (1923): second volume of autobiography. * "Out of the Earth" (1923): short horror story regarding the malefic brutality of the mythical "Little People", who are emulating World War I. * ''The London Adventure'' (1924): third and final volume of autobiography.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2009/03/17/arthur-machen-and-the-london-adventure/|title=Arthur Machen and The London Adventure|date=17 March 2009|access-date=11 November 2018}}</ref> * ''Dog and Duck'' (1924): essays. * ''The Glorious Mystery'' (1924): essays and vignettes. * ''The Canning Wonder'' (1925): non-fiction study of the eighteenth-century mystery of the disappearance of [[Elizabeth Canning]]. Machen concludes that Canning was lying about some or all of her exploits. * ''Dreads and Drolls'' (1926): essays (expanded edition, Tartarus Press: 2007). * ''Notes and Queries'' (1926): essays. * ''Tom O'Bedlam and His Song'' (1930): essays. * "Opening the Door" (1931): short story. Tale of a man's mysterious transcendence into some outer faery realm. * ''[[The Green Round]]'' (1933): novel. A man is haunted by a dwarf after visiting the "green round" on a beach. * "N" (1934): short story. An encounter in London of a hidden fairyland. * ''[[The Children of the Pool]]'' (1936): short story collection including the late-period horror stories "Change" and "Out of the Picture". *''Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923β1947'' (Kent State University Press, 1994): correspondence. *''Bridles and Spurs'' (1951): essays.
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