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Dale Nelson continues his survey of Arthur Machen’s reading list with a review of Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder.

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The Enchanted City: To-morrow the King and Queen set out from Buckingham Palace on their sacred errand; and at the Palace people were gathered in thousands before eleven o’clock. They stood six deep by the railings, they were standing in dense black clusters on the steps of the Memorial, they had made a line in the centre of the roadway, leaving spaces on either side for the wheeled traffic.

NEW POETRY

A new untitled poem by Benjamin Rozonoyer

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A Study in Scarlet: At first no voices and no sound of words reached the onlookers by the lake; it was as if some great and solemn and significant ritual was being performed in dumb show behind the scarlet hedge of the Yeomen. But the golden cross was lifted up, and we knew that the Archbishop of Canterbury was dedicating the memorial to the glorious memory of Queen Victoria.

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Some Autumn Books: It will be a surprise to lovers of the gentle, ironic, smiling Jane [Austin] to find that she would now and then compete with Swift in bitterness.

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Letter to the Editor: A curious mystery.

Order before August 1^st to receive a discount on the expanded editions of A Reader of Curious Books and Dreamt in Fire by Arthur Machen. These books include newly added material, much of it rare. See the List of Contents for Dreamt of Fire. These two new volumes and Mist and Mystery are available in limited and numbered hardcover versions.

NEW POETRY

A Kitchen Incantation by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Stray Notes on Some Books of To-day: … Mr. [Algernon] Blackwood’s greatest successes have been in the region of vague terror, in enlarging on the emotions that we all feel in solitary, untrodden spaces. “The Human Chord” is not vague; it is definite—nay, it is technical.

NEW POETRY

Consolations by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Saturday Nights in War Time: This week, we present one of the new additions to the second edition of Dreamt in Fire. Preorder here.

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Dale Nelson introduces us to The Silence of Dean Maitland

NEW POETRY

Porch Poem by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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In Memory of Our Canadians: So a dying sun may have shone on the waste levels of Flanders when, the smoke of the battle and the poison-clouds had passed away, and the Canadians looked on one another; and looked on their dead.

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NEW POETRY

Of All The Living by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Our Poster Stamp Competition: Add to the list of the benefited the mystery and art of colour printing; and perhaps the chiefest joys of all will fall to the great tribe, of the collectors, with whom I always sympathise, whom I always envy, though I have never had the patience to collect anything myself.

Previously out-of-print volumes of work by Arthur Machen will return to the Darkly Bright Catalog. We are now accepting preorders for new expanded editions of A Reader of Curious Books & Dreamt in Fire at discounted rates until July 31. Both books will available in softcover and limited hardback editions. Likewise, we are offering a limited edition of Mist and Mystery.

NEW POETRY

Together, God by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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An Exploration in Dickens’ Land: Childhood is the age of vision, of real insight; and hence Hazlitt declares truly enough that most men of genius spend their lives in teaching the world what they themselves knew before they were eighteen.

NEW POETRY

Who Furrows? Who Follows? By Joshua Alan Sturgill

FAIRY TALES

The Yellow Dwarf via Andrew Lang

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The Joy of Eating: But is it not a great marvel? You take a man fainting and disconsolate, and give him meat and drink and he will become eloquent; your beefsteak and Burgundy and coffee and tobacco smoke are returned to you, with good luck, in the shape of high thoughts and wit and poetry.

NEW POETRY

Suggested by a Passing Bee by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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No. 5: Villette—Dale Nelson explores Machen’s interest in Charlotte Brontë’s final novel.

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Thomas Hardy as a Playwright: After passing the calm waters of Poole Harbour, shining in the afternoon sunlight, I began to think of Hardy, and of that mystery of visible nature which I have always thought to be the prime secret of the great master’s work.

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Literary Ecstasy: A contemporary review of Machen’s Hieroglyphics