AM - Arthur Machen

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.
-From "The Red Hand"

Machen was one of the masters of supernatural fiction whose work immediately preceded and influenced Lovecraft a great deal. I have indexed, in the following stories, just a few key terms and ideas that later found their way into the Mythos.

AM Novel - Arthur Machen, The Novel of the Black Seal, in Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, by Arthur Machen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius. 

(Also in The Three Impostors & Other Stories, Arthur Machen, Oakland: Chaosium, 2000.)

References: black seal; fairies; Ixaxar; Little People; Sixtystone; snakes;

AM Red - Arthur Machen, The Red Hand, in The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen. Ayer Company, 1970; reprint of a 1926 edition.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius. 

(Also in The White People and Other Stories, Arthur Machen, Oakland: Chaosium, 2003.)

References: Little People (indirectly);

AM Shining - Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid, in Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. References fairies, Little People.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.

(Also in The Three Impostors & Other Stories, Arthur Machen, Oakland: Chaosium, 2000.)

References: fairies; Little People; snakes;

AM White2 - Arthur Machen, The White People, in Tales of Horror and the Supernatural.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.  

(Also in The White People and Other Stories, Arthur Machen, Oakland: Chaosium, 2003.)

References: Aklo language; Chian language; Dols; Mao game(s); voor, voorish;


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