The Hill of Dreams (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

The Hill of Dreams (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

Lucian Taylor believes he has been damned through contact with an erotically pagan world--or possibly through something degenerate in his own nature--in this critically acclaimed horror story. Moving to London to shake off his fears of being trapped by the dark imaginings of a creature inside him,

The Three Impostors (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen. Consisting of interwoven stories involving the title characters, The Three Impostors was compared to the prose style of Robert Louis Stevenson on publication. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen's writing earned praise

Faunus: The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen (Machin James)(Paperback)

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

The Great God Pan & Other Classic Horror Stories (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

'Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen.' -- H. P. Lovecraft Arthur Machen (1863-1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan

Great God Pan (Machen Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The White People and Other Weird Stories (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales,

Pahorek snů - Arthur Machen

Román Arthura Machena Pahorek snů je snovou autobigrafií jednoho z největších spisovatelů horrorové fikce z období fin de siEcle a první poloviny 20. století. Autor uznávaný Lovecraftem a Kingem zde líčí svě dětství a dospívání v přízračném městečku, kdysi významné

Hrůza - Arthur Machen - e-kniha

eBook: Arthur Machen se narodil v malé velšské vesničce, jež na přelomu 4. a 5. století byla sídlem dvora krále Artuše a odkud Rytíři kulatého stolu vyjížděli hledat svatý gráll. Byl členem tajné společnosti anglických zasvěcenců Zlatý úsvit, k níž patřil mj. i Bram

Traja podvodníci - Arthur Machen

Slávny welšský prozaik Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) vytvoril zbierku mrazivo tajomných poviedok, ktoré prepojil do brilantného neo-gotického románového celku s prekvapivou pointou. Dvojica zanietených milovníkov života a klasickej literatúry sa čoraz hlbšie zaplieta do vražedného

The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal

The Great God Pan/The Shining Pyramid/The White People (Machen Arthur)(Paperback)

A sensation when first published in 1894, this frightening story involves evil scientists and the women that become monsters at their hands. An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong--she has witnessed the God Pan and will die giving

On the Suffering of the World (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

On the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence. Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core

Woman in Black (Hill Susan)(Paperback / softback)

When Arthur Kipps, a young up-and-coming solicitor, was sent up north to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, he imagined that a dreary, formal visit lay before him. Nothing prepared him for the terrible events he was about to witness at Eel Marsh House. The Woman in Black is his haunting

The Fall of Arthur (Tolkien J. R. R.)(Paperback)

The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur, king of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive

Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works (Rimbaud Arthur)(Paperback)

'The hallucinatory prose-poems of Arthur Rimbaud rank among the glories of 19th-century French literature.' -- New York TimesOne of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost

Woman in Black (Hill Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered

Invisible Writing (Koestler Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century

The Discovery of King Arthur (Ashe Geoffrey)(Paperback)

The discovery of King

The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Machen Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal

A Child of the Jago (Morrison Arthur)(Paperback)

Here is the only critical edition of Arthur Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East End. Peter Miles's comprehensive edition offers unrivalled contextual material about the book, its author, and the social debates to which it contributed. The introduction discusses the real

Arrow in the Blue (Koestler Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his

Arthur Elgort: I Love... (Elgort Arthur)(Paperback)

Designed in the style of his bestselling Models Manual, this book celebrates the women Arthur Elgort has lovedIn his latest book, the great American fashion photographer Arthur Elgort presents photographs of women that he has taken throughout his career, in homage to their power, their beauty,

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot Book (Edward Waite Arthur)(Paperback)

Arthur Edward Waite was a profound scholar of the occult. He was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn and made the tarot accessible to the reader with the release of his seminal work, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, in 1909. The book is broken into three parts: 'The Veil and Its Symbols' which

The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most people considered dreams unworthy of serious consideration. Sigmund Freud, however, had noticed that they formed an active part in the analysis of his patients, and he gradually came to believe that they represent struggles by the unconscious to