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December 19, 2020

Name: Arthur Machen
Born: 03/03/1863
Died: 12/15/1947 (84 years old)
Occupation: Short story writer, novelist, journalist, actor

Arthur Machen (/ˈmækən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.” He is also well known for “The Bowmen”, a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.

Birth Name: Arthur Llewellyn Jones

Genre: Horror, fantasy, supernatural fiction, weird fiction

Birth Place: Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales

Death Place: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England

Source: Wikipedia

Arthur Machen quotes :

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
Arthur Machen

It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
Arthur Machen