Whilst Arthur Machen hasn’t attained quite the same literary and pop-cultural status as Lovecraft, there has been greater recognition of his work over the past few decades - and rightly so, as Machen is a giant of weird fiction and one of the early progentors of cosmc horror.
At the forefront of the Machen renaissance has been Tartarus Press who, since 1990 have been producing very handsome editions of Machen’s work (as well as that of other weird fiction writers whose work warrants greater recognition). In 2005, Tartarus also published a new Machen biography: John Gawsworth’s The Life of Arthur Machen, which they reprinted more recently - the paperback edition of which landed on my doorstep this very day. Nice.
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