Editing Arthur Machen (section)

===Journalism and the Great War: 1910–1921===
Finally Machen accepted a full-time journalist's job at [[Alfred Harmsworth]]'s ''[[Evening News (London)|Evening News]]'' in 1910. In February 1912 his son Hilary was born, followed by a daughter Janet in 1917. The coming of the [[First World War]] in 1914 saw Machen return to public prominence for the first time in twenty years due to the publication of "The Bowmen" and the subsequent publicity surrounding the "[[Angels of Mons]]" episode. He published a series of stories capitalizing on this success, most of which were morale-boosting propaganda, but the most notable, "The Great Return" (1915) and the novella ''The Terror'' (1917), were more accomplished. He also published a series of autobiographical articles during the war, later reprinted in book form as ''Far Off Things''. During the war years Machen also met and championed the work of a fellow Welshman, [[Caradoc Evans]].<ref name="machensoc.demon.co.uk"/>

In general, though, Machen thoroughly disliked work at the newspaper, and it was only the need to earn money for his family which kept him at it. The money came in useful, allowing him to move in 1919 to a bigger house with a garden, in [[St John's Wood]], which became a noted location for literary gatherings attended by friends such as the painter [[Augustus John]], [[D. B. Wyndham Lewis]], and [[Jerome K. Jerome]]. Machen's dismissal from the ''Evening News'' in 1921 came as a relief in one sense, though it caused financial problems. Machen, however, was recognized as a great [[Fleet Street]] character by his contemporaries, and he remained in demand as an essay writer for much of the twenties.