Midsummer

Explore Spirit Lake, the new novel by Ben Dolan.


Arthur Machen on MIDSUMMER

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

No Cattle Shows: At one show I was discussing bacon with a man from Cheshire, whose face was as round and red and jocund as a harvest moon. The round man wishes me to understand exactly what he meant; and in an instant he had twirled me round and cut me up—theoretically, with his forefinger—into “sides” and “back” and “belly” in the admiration of a learned audience.

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