Faunus - The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen (light wear)

Faunus: The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen edited by James Machin / ISBN 9781907222757 / 224-page paperback with flaps from Strange Attractor Press (UK) / very minor wear from inbound shipping *** “Machen’s a slippery ghost. He eludes us. The best of Faunus blows smoke towards the space he occupies invisibly and attempts to extrapolate his exact shape from hollows in a moving cloud.”--Stewart Lee Scholarship, debate, archival material, and esoterica relating to Arthur Machen, a “modern master of the weird tale.” For twenty years, Faunus, the biannual journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen, has been publishing an astonishing range of scholarship, debate, archival material, and esoterica relating to the writer H. P. Lovecraft described as a “modern master of the weird tale.” Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was not only an author of weird and decadent horror fiction lauded by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro (among many others); he was also a journalist and essayist who, over decad