![]() Joshi with a preface by filmmaker and self-confessed fantasy geek Guillermo del Toro), had a timely wartime subject, featuring a band of beleaguered British soldiers about to be overrun. ![]() The story, titled "The Bowmen"' and now republished in The White People and Other Weird Stories(edited by horror scholar S. On September 29, 1914, the News ran a short story with Machen's byline it was the first time in more than a decade that he'd published any fiction. He'd gone through the modest inheritance left him by his father, and he was working, neither happily nor efficiently by all accounts, as a reporter and critic at a big London paper, The Evening News. By 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, his once promising career as an imaginative writer appeared to be on the wane. ![]() ARTHUR MACHEN (rhymes with "bracken") was born in Caerleon-on-Usk, in Wales, in 1863. ![]()
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