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Vincent Starrett calls Machen "The novelist of ecstasy and sin". Peter Whiffle called him "The most wonderful man writing English today." A great story teller, says John Masefield—"the most remarkable stories that have been written in this generation."

Arthur Machen's

Success

Born England 1863.

First book published 1881. Eighteen distinguished works (including a twelve-volume translation of Casanova) published from 1881 to 1922. For these forty-two years of labor he received the sum of £635—£15 and a few shillings a year! in spite of the testimonial of every English critic of note to his genius. At the age of sixty—one of the greatest writers English literature has produced—he was one of the least known.

Alfred A. Knopf published "The House of Souls" in a new edition, in 1922. With the Borzoi imprint,