Machen, Arthur

Machen, Arthur (măk'un) [key], 1863–1947, British author, b. Wales. He wrote a series of semiautobiographical fantasies, notably The Hill of Dreams (1907) and Far Off Things (1922), and tales of horror and the supernatural. Machen achieved transient fame during World War I with “The Bowman,” a tale relating how St. George and his ghostly archers rescue the British army and slaughter the Germans.

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