NEW POETRY

Sarah, Do Not Be Surprised by Joshua Alan Sturgill

BOOKS AROUND MACHEN

Notes on The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams: Dale Nelson returns for a meditation on the Apostle of Wonder and the Oddest Inkling.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Literature for the Boy at the Tail of the Van: But, note, it is not the trashiness of the novelette that pleases; it is the thrill—of mystery and sensation, of battle and murder and sudden death. And in these things there is nothing unliterary—unless the “Odyssey” be unliterary. The story of the One-Eyed Monster and the Cave, of the Cannibal Feast, the Glowing Stake, and the Escape under the Ram’s Belly—all that is “hot stuff.

NEW POETRY

A Place And A Name by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Unanimity Among the Conversationalists: Well, it won’t do. When a thing happens, it cannot be unnatural, though it may well be unusual. But that is a very different thing. The critics of whom we are talking are requested to remember for the future that secret societies of murderers, mystic signs cut on murdered men’s bodies, furious battles in London streets are all as natural as cups and saucers and that which is called “psychotic.”

NEW POETRY

The Confession of Maximos by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Rare Gift of Literary Individuality: I do not share all the aversions; I like all cats and am willing enough to discuss the Great Rebellion; I bar the Bacon business, and don’t care whether the world is flat or no. But anything rather than that old occult scandal about the Pyramid!

NEW POETRY

A Simple Way by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Having posted Machen’s entire output for The Daily Express, we return with him to The Evening News with Looking Backward.

NEW POETRY

Only Other Gods by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

How We Lost Our Tails: I would say that the truth is that we are, somehow, the sons of God. This truth primitive man apprehended; but to make it intelligible to himself he had to put it in the form of a picture story. His symbols are not our symbols, but it is doubtful whether the highest truth can be communicated to man or apprehended by him save through symbols of some kind.

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.

Demand has outpaced our on-hand stock of Ben Dolan’s new novel, Spirit Lake! Thank you to all those who have purchased copies. Orders are still being accepted – please allow two weeks for delivery.

NEW POETRY

Omnia Lux by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Wasted Van Power: Economy is the word of the moment—economy in food, economy in dress, economy in coal and lighting, economy in everything, to feed the guns and husband labour. Why not, therefore, economy in traffic?

Purchase the New Novel

Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present Ben Dolan’s debut novel, SPIRIT LAKE, an elegiac confrontation between a man and his tragic past. In this complex character study, the author explores the borderlands which superficially divide poetry, technology and mysticism. Stone is a hunted man on the run to the scorched mountainsides of the Southwest where the veil between this world and the next is ghostly thin.

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Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present Ben Dolan’s debut novel, SPIRIT LAKE, an elegiac confrontation between a man and his tragic past. In this complex character study, the author explores the borderlands which superficially divide poetry, technology and mysticism. Stone is a hunted man on the run to the scorched mountainsides of the Southwest where the veil between this world and the next is ghostly thin.

POETRY NEWS

Linda Lobmeyer, the author of When I Forget the Words, has published new work at Trampoline.

Ifs And Suggestions by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Democracy of Poets: He came home; but his home was amid the stars, not by the English lanes and meadows. But here in this book is the true democracy—if we must call it by that name.

Congratulations to Jesse Keith Butler, author of The Living Law, who received a two-month writer’s residency from the Writer’s Trust of Canada.

NEW POETRY

The True Mountain by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Little Men and Little Pleasures: To-day that evening’s treat would cost Kit something like twenty-five shillings—and a sermon on the Evils of Drink. Is the little man of little means ever going to be able to take his little pleasures again?