Arthur Machen

Machen's popularity in 1920s America has been noted, and his work was an influence on the development of the pulp horror found in magazines like Weird Tales and on such notable fantasy writers as James Branch Cabell, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, 11] Frank Belknap Long (who wrote a tribute to Machen in verse, "On Reading Arthur Machen"), 12] Donald Wandrei, 13] David Lindsay 10] and E. Charles Vivian.

Arthur Machen ( 3 March 1863 - 15 December 1947) was 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 (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best horror story] in the English language". He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. The angels of Mons: The bowmen, and other legends of the war & The Great Return (2 Books)

Arthur Machen was a Welsh writer and mystic who was best known for supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.

I have been asked to write an introduction to the story of "The Bowmen", on its publication in book form together with three other tales of similar fashion. And I hesitate. This affair of "The Bowmen" has been such an odd one from first to last, so many queer complications have entered into it, there have been so many and so divers currents and cross-currents of rumour and speculation concerning it, that I honestly do not know where to begin. I propose, then, to solve the difficulty by apologising for beginning at all.