SHORT FICTION

Dialogue Between a Swallow and a Sinner by Rafael Pereira Bianchin

NEW POETRY

Apprentice by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Nanasimgit by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Some Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson: Personally, I have always been of the opinion that the best criticism of R. L. S. was penned in the leading columns of the Pall Mall Gazette on the day on which Stevenson’s death was announced. The leading article spoke of the dead author as among the greatest of “The Little Masters”; and as I say, it seems to me that no juster verdict could possibly be given.

NEW POETRY

More Are The Children by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Saviour by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Book of Common Joys: Boffin, the Golden Dustman, as all know, hired Silas Wegg, a literary man with a wooden leg, to read Roman history to him and Mrs. Boffin. The work selected was “Decline and Fall of the Rooshan Empire,” as Mr. Boffin said. It was in reality Gibbon’s immortal masterpiece, and so Mr. Boffin became involved in the decadence of imperial Rome, and “Commodus, under the appellation Commodious, unworthy of his English origin and ‘not to have acted up to his name’ in his government of the Roman people.”

NEW & FEATURED POETRY

Wounded Reaching & Holy Wednesday by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Righteous Seed (Holy Monday) & Lamentations by Mark Mosley

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The East in the West:  The symbolism is of heaven brought down to earth, of the priest standing a mortal amidst a host of the undying. The awful orders of the angels are about him, about him are the companies of the saints, around him stand the martyrs in dyed robes, having exchanged earthly anguish and the flames of burning torment for the eternal aureoles of heaven. With the prayers of the priest and of the people their prayers ascend to the place of the Majesty on high, and there is represented in a mystery the High Sacrifice of Calvary.

Machen Studies

For Machen Study – No 40, we present a recent lecture given by Joshuas Alan Sturgill on the Apostle of Wonder… “Machen’s work is meant to cause shuddering at what is always present around us, but rarely seen. His fiction work is suggestive and descriptive, rather than exciting and gory, and his essays always gravitate toward the transcendent in everyday things.”

The Weekly Machen

War and Spring Poets: Poetry and song are more truly natural to man than prose and common speech. This sounds odd to our sophisticated ears, but it is undoubtedly true. Man, then, is, by his inmost, primitive nature, a lyrical being, he naturally uttered himself in song long before he took to the habit of speaking in prose and in flat, unmusical accents.

NEW POETRY

Between Two Lives by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Villanelle of the Elect by Jesse Keith Butler

A new poem by Butler, The Life of the Lake, has been published in the pages of the Cloud Lake Literary. Congratulations!

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Mr. Wells’ Radium Bomb: “The radium bomb is the god from the machine of Mr. Wells’s new story-essay. Physical science makes a great leap, radioactive forces become its servants. … But, frankly, it seems to me that the whole book and all its theories are vitiated by what I venture to consider Mr. Wells’s radical misconception of human happiness, what it is, and how it is gained.”

BOOK UPDATE: A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is back in stock.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW POETRY

Those Who Came Before by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Snow Was General by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Concerning Mr. Wells: This week, Machen reviews Wells’ book An Englishman Looks At The World. As you may guess, the two thinkers look at the world quite differently.

Book Announcements

BOOK UPDATE

A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is currently out-of-stock. A new impression has been ordered and should be available soon.

A Secret Language by Arthur Machen: Only six copies remain of this limited edition chapbook.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: 

POETIC CATECHISM:
A Lecture by Joshua Alan Sturgill on Becoming Orthodox Slowly and Completely.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part IV: Sunlight! It poured upon us, and made the pleasant land all golden, and glittered on the ripples of the rushing brooks as the steeps of the Quantocks closed in upon us. The farmers allowed that they could do with a drop of rain, but their eyes twinkled and their hearts were evidently set to cheerfulness.

NEW POETRY

Telling Time by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Kingdom of Heaven by Phillip Neal Tippin

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part II … I saw the walls again at the time of the afterglow. Their creams and greys and ambers were all flushed, and were as rose-coloured samite; the figures of the Apostles and Saints, the Kings and the Martyrs that stand in their stories in the marvellous west front shone in clear glory. And then the dusk fell, and the great church became a vague height beneath the dim appearance of the evening stars.

The festival will feature Father Gabriel Rochelle. For More information, visit the Eighth Day Institute.

NEW POETRY

Give Everything Away by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Labor by Mark Mosley

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

My Wandering Week, Part I: It was not to be a holiday in the usual sense of the word. Holidays are fixed things, foreordained, and prearranged. You know where you are going, why you are going, and, very likely, what dishes the landlady cooks to best advantage. A holiday is an affair of the known; my trip–or whatever you like to call it–was to be an adventure of the unknown and unsurmised. Philosophically considered, the holiday-maker is a creature of the logical understanding; but I was to sally forth and get me gone to the region of Anywhere, a creature of the pure imagination. …

This week, we celebrate the feast of St. David of Wales:

A Meditation by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle

Visitations

NEW POETRY

Physics of Insight by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Profile (The County Road in January) by Phillip Neal Tippin

MACHEN STUDIES

This March 3^rd is the 159^th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Machen. To celebrate this and the centenary year of the publication of Far Off Things, we present the conclusion of our multiyear serialization of the book. Now, in one place, the entire volume can be read for free.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

For the month of March, we will be traveling alongside the Apostle of Wonder as he journeys about England and Wales. We begin with A Week-End in North Wales.