{"product_id":"dr-stephen-ph-d-carver-between-two-worlds-2024","title":"Dr Stephen, Ph.D Carver: Between Two Worlds [2024]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected and introduced by Stephen Carver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen.' - H.P. Lovecraft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere upon the floor was a dark and putrid mass, seething with corruption and hideous rottenness, neither liquid nor solid, but melting and changing before our eyes, and bubbling with unctuous oily bubbles like boiling pitch. And out of the midst of it shone two burning points like eyes...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mysterious beauty leaves a trail of suicides in her wake; an innocent child is indoctrinated into witchcraft and depravity; the bowmen of Agincourt come to the aid of the British Expeditionary Force; animals inexplicably start killing people; and a fragment of Paradise randomly manifests in a London suburb... Welcome to the weird world of Arthur Machen, a writer that H.P. Lovecraft hailed as a 'Master of Horror.' Machen fervently believed in a mystical and eternal reality hidden beyond the veil of ordinary existence, that could be glimpsed by those who knew how to look. Sometimes the revelation would be beautiful, sometimes terrible. Using the mediums of horror and weird fantasy, Machen set out to unlock these visions of 'Sorcery and sanctity.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection comprises the majority of Machen's short horror fiction, including his Decadent masterpiece \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e, his tales of the malevolent 'Little People' still living beneath the mountains and valleys of his native Wales, and the chilling novella \u003cem\u003eThe Terror\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange Story of a Red Jar \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Autophone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Double Return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lost Club\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Inmost Light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Shining Pyramid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovel of the Black Seal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovel of the Iron Maid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovel of the White Powder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Red Hand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe White People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bowmen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Soldiers' Rest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Monstrance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Return \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of the Earth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Terror \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Happy Children \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrnaments in Jade: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-The Rose Garden \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-The Turanians \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-The Idealist \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Witchcraft \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-The Ceremony \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Psychology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Torture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Midsummer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Nature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e-The Holy Things \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening the Door \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bright Boy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Children of the Pool \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Exalted Omega \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of the Picture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChange \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cosy Room \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eN \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dover Road \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Introduction to The Bowmen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carver, Dr Stephen, Ph.D \u0026 Machen, Arthur","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53874956599635,"sku":"9781840228489","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/carver-dr-stephen-ph-d-machen-arthur-dr-stephen-ph-d-carver-between-two-worlds-2024-9781840228489-1240969045.jpg?v=1780175438","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/dr-stephen-ph-d-carver-between-two-worlds-2024","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}