013 Dreamt in Fire: The Dreadful Ecstasy of Arthur Machen
Expanded Second Edition:
Now Available
“…and there came to me a certain vision of a real world about us all the while, of a language that was only secret because we would not take the trouble to listen to it and discern it.”
The literature of Arthur Machen is always an exploration into sacrament and landscape, replete with complex symbology he described as hieroglyphics. Places are haunted or doxified, and so are the characters. There are costs to the events found in each of his narratives, whether it be the dissolution of personhood by submitting to evil, or its glorification through grace.
Dreamt in Fire has been compiled and arranged with the desire to present an expansive survey on the work of Arthur Machen without resorting to the over-anthologized texts found so easily in other collections. This goal of gathering “fresh” material while remaining representative of the writer’s long career illustrates a brilliant arc of depth and wonder. The selected pieces, initially published between 1889 and 1943, have been divided into four categories: Fiction, Essays & Articles, Christian Apologetics and selections from Machen’s Memoirs.
Conceived as a companion piece to a series of Machen lectures, the first edition was was released at the 2021 Inklings Festival in Wichita, Kansas as a limited edition of 50 copies, now-out-of-print. The second expanded edition adds over 70 pages and includes additional fiction, essays and illustrations. See the List of Contents.
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August 2023
5.5 x 8.5 Hardcover with Linen Wrap, 362 Pages
Limited to 25 numbered copies
ISBN: 978-8-9863904-5-1
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ISBN: 978-1-9863904-6-8
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