As of this writing, it is still possible to pre-order copies of the Critical Edition of THE TERROR. This limited and numbered hardcover version will not be reprinted. A discount is being offered through October 6, 2024.
Hear THE TERROR: A classic radio drama.
The Great Terror, Chapters 1 & 2: This is the first installment of the serialization of Arthur Machen’s wartime fantasy from the pages of the Evening News.
Pre-orders for the limited and numbered hardcover edition of Arthur Machen’s THE TERROR are now being accepted: Buy Now.
Registration and schedule for the 2024 Inklings Festival in Wichita is now available. And, it promises to be one of the best yet. Scholars Jason Baxter, Terry Mattingly and Joshua Alan Sturgill will lecture on C. S. Lewis. Additionally, Linda Lobmeyer will read poetry from her upcoming Darkly Bright collection, When I Forget The Words. Finally, I will be on hand to discuss Machen’s place as “myth-maker.”
NEW POETRY
Diet by Joshua Alan Sturgill
New Interview with Jesse Keith Butler, the author of The Living Law.
Absolutely My Last Word on the Subject: So, I really think that Mr. Taylor has used Mr. Begbie harshly. He should not take Mr. Begbie’s instances and Mr. Begbie’s methods, and then tell Mr. Begbie that he has wasted his time and energy.
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of When I Forget The Words, the first poetry collection by Linda Lobmeyer. The book will be released on November 1st. Advance copies will be available for purchase at the 2024 Inklings Festival. During the weekend event, Lobmeyer will give a poetry reading.
NEW POETRY
The Skeptic Contemplates A Landscape by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Those Angels … I refrain from discussing certain, topics which he has elaborated in the course of his book. These are: My own failure to realise human suffering, my “rather sinister genius,” the judgement of the Christ on the “posturings and abasements of the Jewish temple” my “pitiable depths,” my paltriness, my pomposity, and the views of the author on God, Life, and Immortality.
Machen Study No. 50 Update: Added audio and imagery. Thanks to David Llewellyn Dodds for pointing out this information.
NEW POETRY
That House by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Selling the Angels: Through primary sources, we explore how Bowmen and Angels were sold to a hopeful public. It pairs nicely with—
Great Demand for “The Bowmen” Story: To be issued in book form.
NEW POETRY
Answering the Fool by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Bowmen on the Battlefield: It was written as a tale. It was frank fiction. It did not pretend to be a narrative of anything that has occurred on the battlefield. There was no more reason for taking it to be descriptive of an actual experience than there is for regarding “The Great God Pan,” or any other of Mr. Machen’s famous stories as a string of plain facts that any lawyer would put into an affidavit.
NEW POETRY
Waiting by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Sixty Years of Photographs: I looked round the pictures on the walls and found that it was so. Here were photographs of “the best people,” and in many cases they stood, full-length, amidst “accessories”—the old tables and balustrades and pillars and curtains that I had thought of as vanished for ever.
NEW POETRY
Circle of Animals by Joshua Alan Sturgill
No Escape from The Bowmen: Frankenstein made a monster to his sorrow. I have forgotten what happened to this unfortunate inventor in the end: but I begin to sympathise with him, though my creation was a more benevolent kind than his.
MACHEN STUDY No. 49
The Monstrance & Karl Heinz: Featuring an integrated text, noted Arthurian scholar David Llewellyn Dodds explores the inspirations behind Machen’s enigmatic war story. Dodds is a contributor to the upcoming Darkly Bright edition of THE TERROR.
NEW POETRY
The Law of Inversion by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Some Novels at the Moment: What is a thesis? It is a proposition, a statement which you lay down and support by argument. For example, anybody who says that black is white, or that the moon is made of green cheese, or that by night all cats are grey, and that he can prove it, is a man with a thesis; and he is bound to be good fun.
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