A Teacher
Arthur Machen
Welsh visionary who made the numinous terrifying in prose.
The transmission
Arthur Machen, born Arthur Llewellyn Jones in Caerleon, Wales, was an author and mystic celebrated for his supernatural and horror fiction. His novella ‘The Great God Pan’ is regarded as a classic of the genre and was praised by later writers including Stephen King.
He briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn through his friend A.E. Waite, though his involvement remained peripheral.
What they gave
He wrote landmark weird tales, including ‘The Great God Pan’ and ‘The White People’, that helped define modern supernatural horror.
The line they stand in
A peripheral member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn introduced by A.E. Waite, he drew on Celtic mysticism, mediaeval romance, and a mystical sense of the Welsh landscape.