The Inmost Light — (1894) A scientist imprisons his wife’s soul in a shining jewel, letting something else into her untenanted body, but the jewel is stolen before he can reverse this.

The Hill of Dreams — (1907) Publisher: But already about the town the darkness was forming; fast, fast the shadows crept upon it from the forest, and from all sides banks and wreaths of curling mist were gathering, as if a ghostly leaguer were being built up against the city, and the strange race who lived in its streets. Suddenly there burst out fro the stillness the clear an piercing music of the réveillé, calling, recalling, iterated, reiterated, and ending with one long high fierce shrill note.

The Great Return — (1915) Publisher: They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.

The Green Round — (1932) Publisher: Why is studious, bookish, quiet Lawrence Hillyer suddenly reviled and shunned by his fellow holiday-makers at a genteel Pembrokeshire coastal resort? Why is staunch and respectable Mrs Jolly, a landlady of many years seniority, all at once the source of police interest and knowing looks from her neighbours? What weird projectile smashed suburban Mr Horncastle’s domed glasshouse from such an improbable distance? What is the inner secret of the Reverend Thomas Hampole’s modest little book recounting his rambles in lesser-known London? What draws an eminent nerve specialist to study all this with such deep interest? Arthur Machen includes within the pages of The Green Round all of the many interests and preoccupations of his writing career. His hero, Hillyer, takes a holiday in West Wales and visits the “Green Round”, a mysterious natural hollow. He soon finds that he has acquired an unwanted shadow, and the novel becomes a study in disclocated parallel realities. With a perceptive new introduction by Machen’s most recent biographer, Mark Valentine.

The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen:

Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos.

Volume 1: Three Imposters and Other Stories — The first volume of Chaosium’s Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling “The Three Impostors” in its complete form, including the rarely seen sections “The Decorative Imagination” and “The Novel of the Iron Maid.” Rounding out the first volume are “The Great God Pan,” “The Inmost Light,” and “The Shining Pyramid,” all are excellent tales. Introduction by S.T. Joshi.

Volume 2: The White People and Other Stories — Born in Wales in 1863, Machen was a London journalist for much of his life. Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, “The White People”, which H.P. Lovecraft thought to be the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood’s “The Wilows”). This wide ranging collection also includes the crystalline novelette “A Fragment of Life”, & “The Angel of Mons” (a story so widely reported that it was imagined true by millions in the grim initial days of the Great War), and “The Great Return” telling of the stately visions which graced the Welsh village of Llantristant for a time. Four more tales and the poetical “Ornaments in Jade” are all finely told. This is the second Machen volume edited by S.T. Joshi and published by Chaosium.

Volume 3: The Terror and Other Stories — The complete version of “The Terror”, “The Lost Club”, “Munitions of War”, “The Islington Mystery”, “Johnny Double,””The Cosy Room”, “Opening the Door”, “The Children of The Pool”, “The Bright Boy”, “Out Of The Picture”, “Change”, “The Dover Road”, “Ritual”.