New Arthur Machen Collection

March 1st: The Feast of St. David of Wales

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

AT A MAN’S TABLE: Gastronomical Adventures with Arthur Machen

Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of periodical work by Arthur Machen. This new volume includes the complete culinary column Machen wrote for The Sunday Express in the late 1920s and additional fugitive pieces.

The collection will be available for preorder on Monday, March 3rd, and is limited to 40 copies.

NEW POETRY

Meditation After School by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

A Nation in Exile: We pity, I think, not those who are most pitiable, but those who are most helpless. The Russian Church is now offering prayers not only for the soldiers of Russia but for the innocent beasts whose blood is being spilt during the war, they having done no harm. So one pities these poor children, who perhaps understand very little and suffer nothing much more than weariness and confusion; and yet one’s heart goes out more to the little boy of three or four, who clings to his mother’s skirt … 

The Sad Plight of Exile

NEW POETRY

Man Quietly Gathers by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Exiles: Some of them have seen towns and villages laid waste amid circumstances of incredible cruelty, others have fled before the black legions have come upon them. There are 20,000 French and Belgian refugees now in Folkestone, and many of the exiles have passed on to London. They come, and yet more come each day and all the day. Boat follows boat, from Antwerp, from Flushing, from Dieppe, from Ostend, from Boulogne

Teilo Sant Shall Go With Us…

February 9th is the Feast of St. Teilo of Llandaff.

NEW POETRY

Many Changes of the World by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The War Song of the Welsh: ‘The sword of the Bards of the Isle of Britain is drawn against wrong and cruelty and oppression, against abomination and defilement, against treachery and abounding wickedness.’ The sword flashed in the light of the dying sun, and the assembly said that a strong sword was drawn against the oppressors.

On the Study of Words, War & Theophany

NEW POETRY

You and These Elephants by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Rio Grande Theophany by Latayne C. Scott

BOOKS AROUND MACHEN

Dale Nelson makes a welcome return with Trench’s Study of Words.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

In Time of War: And we went further, to a place where raw recruits are being fiercely hammered and pounded into “Kitchener’s army.” But wherever we went and there were soldiers, we found the Y. M. C. A. there doing its very best for these soldiers, and putting good cheer, both of the body and the spirit, into them.

Singing of War

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NEW POETRY

Peak District Park by Benjamin Rozonoyer, author of The Beaver Pond

Timaeus, A Few Closing Remarks Off Record by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Let Us Sing of War: And I think that the poet—the true laureate bard—will see at last this was as a great and fiery rose, a rose palpating with flame. Dante in Paradise saw such a flower; this was for the praise of heaven. But the red rose of war is for the purging of earth.

The Terror Softcover & Lower International Rates

TERROR-figureThe softcover version of Arthur Machen’s The Terror: Critical Edition is now available for purchase.

NEW POETRY

You Will Not Be by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Last Dread Sentence: And then those awful words have to be uttered—I will not say with what anguish behind them—and, as I have said, I never knew before that the terrible and the grotesque could so meet together; nay, that the sheer grimness of that black and grey, and scarlet and white should fitly symbolise the unnatural horror of murder.

Approaching the Twelfth Night

Front Law Cover

The Living Law by Jesse Keith Butler has received an excellent review in The European Conservative.

A Talk for Twelfth Night by Arthur Machen

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

A Strand Meditation: To me it appears that August Strindberg was far more a man of science than an artist; his anxiety was not to discover the eternal truth which is the same thing as beauty, but to register observations and discoveries in psychology, sociology, sensations, schoolrooms, hospitals, and backyards.