Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy

ARTHUR MACHEN
After the Hoppe photograph
Weaver of Fantasy
William Francis Gekle
Millbrook, N. Y. Round Table Press 1949
Copyright, 1949, by William Francis Gekle
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Round Table Press MILLBROOK, N. Y.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
for Verne
It was, I suppose, during the closing months of the First World War that an urbane and witty gentleman, writing in the Confederate city of Richmond, set down these words in the course of one of his interminable, and witty and urbane, monologues: “I wonder if you are familiar with that uncanny genius whom the London directory prosaically lists as Arthur Machen?”
Since there was no reply, as indeed none was expected, the amiable Charteris chatted on about Arthur Machen and, oddly enough, Robert W. Chambers, for some moments, and then he concluded with this statement.... “But here in a secluded library is no place to speak of the thirty years’ neglect that has been accorded Mr. Arthur Machen; it is the sort of crime that ought to be discussed in the Biblical manner, from the house-top....”