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Arthur Machen is perhaps best known for his shorter supernatural and horror fiction. He first achieved notoriety in the Decadent 1890s with his story 'The Great God Pan', and 'The Bowmen' was the origin of the 'Angels of Mons' myth during the First World War. Tales of Horror and the Supernatural collects together the best of Arthur Machen's short stories and novellas.

Contents:

• Introduction • essay by Philip Van Doren Stern
• The Novel of the Black Seal • (1895) • novelette
• The Novel of the White Powder • (1895) • short story
• The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella
• The White People • (1904) • novelette
• The Inmost Light • (1894) • novelette
• The Shining Pyramid • (1895) • novelette
• The Bowmen • (1914) • short story
• The Great Return • (1915) • novelette
• The Happy Children • (1920) • short story
• The Bright Boy • (1936) • novelette
• Out of the Earth • (1915) • short story
• N • (1936) • novelette
• The Children of the Pool • (1936) • short story
• The Terror • (1917) • novel

Early in his career, Welsh author Arthur Machen got caught up in an unusual controversy when "The Bowmen," a fictional tale he published about supernatural beings coming to the aid of British soldiers during the World War I Battle of Mons, began to be interpreted as a factual account by some readers. This volume collects "The Bowmen" and several thematically similar tales.

Contents:

• The Bowmen - (1914) - short story by Arthur Machen
• The Soldiers' Rest - (1914) - short story by Arthur Machen
• The Monstrance - short story by Arthur Machen
• The Dazzling Light - short story by Arthur Machen
• The Bowmen and Other Noble Ghosts, by 'The Londoner' - essay by Arthur Machen
• Postscript (The Angels of Mons) - essay by Arthur Machen

The often-overlooked work of nineteenth-century author Arthur Machen is said to have been very important to the formation of Lovecraft's inimitable style. This collection brings together four of Machen's weird, wonderful tales.

Contents:

• Note (The House of Souls) - essay
• A Fragment of Life - (1904) - novella
• The White People - (1904) - novelette
• The Great God Pan - (1890) - shortstory
• The Inmost Light - (1894) - novelette
• Prologue (The Three Impostors) - (1895) - shortfiction
• Adventure of the Gold Tiberius - (1895) - shortstory
• The Encounter of the Pavement - (1895) - shortstory
• Novel of the Dark Valley - (1895) - shortstory
• Adventure of the Missing Brother - (1895) - shortstory
• Novel of the Black Seal - (1895) - novelette
• Incident of the Private Bar - (1895) - shortstory
• The Recluse of Bayswater - (1895) - shortstory
• Novel of the White Powder - (1895) - shortstory
• Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell - (1895) - shortstory
• History of the Young Man With Spectacles - (1895) - shortstory
• Adventure of the Deserted Residence - (1895) - shortstory
• The Red Hand - (1895) - novelette

The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood in a cloud of mystery and fear.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen's famous collection of "weird tales" — a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. Rich with terror, adventure, satire, deception, and dreamlike fantasy, it is a classic of occult literature written by a stylistic master.