Evil Fairy Folk: Arthur Machen’s Novel Of The Black Seal

Join Cian at the cabin for a beer as he gets to know influential Welsh writer of the strange, the inimitable Arthur Machen, and focuses on his 1895 tale of a Victorian scientist searching for a forgotten race of malevolent ab-human ‘fairy folk’ living in (or under?) the Welsh hills. Discussion covers:

-Psychogeography & hauntology of Machen’s work

-the ‘orientalising’ of Britain’s Celtic fringe

-Victorian pseudo-history

-Margaret Murray & the Witch-Cult Hypothesis (of course!)

-Machen’s influence on (you guessed it) HP Lovecraft

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The Three Imposters, Arthur machen, 1895

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35517/35517-h/35517-h.htm

Ghostland, Edward Parnell, 2019

https://edwardparnell.com/

Caerleon.net, Arthur Machen

http://www.caerleon.net/history/machen/text/index.html

Supernatural Horror in Literature, HP Lovecraft, 1927

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

Conan And The Little People, From An Underwood No 5, Todd B. Vick, 2019

http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2019/01/conan-and-little-people-robert-e-howard.html

The Horror Of Geologic Time, Aaron Worth, 2018

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/31/the-horror-of-geologic-time/