The Glorious Mystery

Arthur Machen

• Publisher: White Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781528704991
• eBook ISBN: 9781528766937

"The Glorious Mystery" is a 1924 collection of essays and vignettes by Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella "The Great God Pan" (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. "The Glorious Mystery" is not to be missed by those with an interest in the work and mind of this seminal writer. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Copyright
• Author
• Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• The Sangraal
• The Holy Grail
• The Sangraal
• The Grail Romances
• The Matter of Romance
• “Consolatus” and “Church-Member”
• A Secret Language
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Iron Maid
• The Rose Garden
• Fragments of Paper
• The Holy Things
• Scrooge: 1920
• Conjuring Time
• La Dive Bouteille
• Sancho Panza at Geneva
• The Morning Light
• The World to Come
• Good Little Books
• Faith and Conduct
• The Apostolic Ideal
• Ecclesia Anglicana.—I
• Ecclesia Anglicana.—II
• “Modernism”
• Dissenting Logic
• False Prophets
• Intolerance
• The Dark Ages