“This volume includes some previously published stories, notably ‘The great god Pan’ and ‘The inmost light,’ which some twelve years since appeared in ‘The keynote series;’ also ‘The three impostors,’ which we best remember as a deft derivative from Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’ The rest of the items are new, but the same note of horror is struck with more or less emphasis in all, and with a varying measure of success.”—Ath.
+ – Acad. 71: 136. Ag. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Machen is a very clever writer—so clever that it seems almost a pity that he should persistently envelope his talent in cerements of the bizarre.”
+ – Ath. 1906. 2: 129. Ag. 4. 340w.
“Whatever may be said for the making of gargoyles in general (or satyrs in particular) as a question of art or of morals, whatever your own taste may be in such matters, Mr. Machen is a master of his method.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 578. S. 22, ’06. 700w.
“As regards the execution of the stories, Mr. Machen has style, and a talent for the fantastic ... but he has not the power of creating horror.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 220w.
M’Kay, William D. Scottish school of painting. *$2. Scribner.