BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE HOUSE OF SOULS With Frontispiece by S. H. Sime. 6s. Mr. John Masefield in The Daily News.—"Six remarkable stories, two of them the most remarkable stories that have been written in the present generation. Mr. Machen's stories show us that he is moved by a sense, ever present to him, of spirits terrible and beautiful, which surround us and influence us… Mr. Machen is so beautifully sensitive to impressions of beauty—to impressions, that is, of living and eternal things that his style is at all times exquisite and lovely… We should like to thank Mr. Machen for his beautiful and terrible stories, and for the pleasure his beautiful and graceful English has given to us as we read them." The Daily Express.—"Very weird… A volume of unusual interest, thoughtful, and making to think." Pall Mall Gazette.—"Mr. Machen stands almost alone in his method and art … a world as gruesome and more spiritual than Poe's." The Standard.—"The first story in its particular way is almost perfect, tender, true, intimate, and restrained… Its mystical qualities, are both rare and beautiful, and as a work of art alone it deserves to live." East Anglian Daily Times.—"We have supped full with horrors… Persons of a sensitive temperament ought not to read the gruesome tales after dusk." The Morning Leader.—"We have seldom seen side by side such acute observation and such magic fantasy… This is a fine book to read." Black and White.—"Strange and haunting mysteries. In reading his stories we have that eerie feeling such as we might experience in the company of a mediæval witch. Mr. Machen is in love with 'incarnate horrors,' with things that we call superstitious and that make us afraid. He is a genuine imaginative artist in his own kind." E. GRANT RICHARDS 7 CARLTON STREET, LONDON, S.W. |
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