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Post by geneweigel on Dec 30, 2014 9:08:44 GMT -5
I saw this on FACEBOOK earlier and thought I'd mention it: Arthur Machen fans want collection protected from cutsIs it that important to draw tourists out into the middle of nowhere to see the leftover property of someone who pondered the disturbing? Don't get me wrong, I love his stuff but justifying his work with the mainstream quasi-folklore angels of Mons legends from his 1914 story "THE BOWMEN" isn't enough to erase the memory of him saying the nearby lands are crawling with raping humanoids, hidden cults of abnormal rites and an unseen infectious world in general in various stories. The minute the museum information starts informing you about the bulk of his work, if you've never read or forgotten it, is the minute his paranoid fear is going to engulf visitors who came for the ANGEL OF MONS legend. Its amazing how illiterate people can get in defense of something literary!
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 30, 2014 10:09:51 GMT -5
I've never read any Arthur Machen but I keep coming across reference to his story "The Great God Pan." It was cited as being an influence on that Stephen King novel I just read: "Revival." Having your brain altered in such a way so as to be able to see other dimensions, or let otherworldly things in, is the core idea here. The story was also an influence on Lovecraft's "Dunwich Horror," and perhaps "From Beyond" as well.
That ANGEL OF MONS legend is just a bizarre example of people wanting to believe something is based on a true account, even though the author admits there are no sources and he just made it up. I guess it had a lot to do with the "false document" style of writing that was popular at the time.
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