Male : Novelist & Writer. Married Amelia Hogg in 1887 (she died of cancer in 1899) & Dorothy Hudlestone in 1903. In London he worked as a publisher's clerk and tutor, catalogued occult books and did translations. From 1929 he lived in Amersham, Bucks, dying in a nursing home in Beaconsfield. He rarely made any money from his writing but has been very influential on horror fiction in the UK and America

Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Caerleon-on-Usk, Gwent

Date of Birth : 1863 Date of Death : 1947 Age : 84

Pseudonyms : Leolinus Silurensis. Real name = Arthur Llewellyn Jones

Other Work : Journalist, worked for the Evening News 1910-21

Education : Hereford Cathedral School

1881-1890
Eleusinia : By a Member of HCS (Hereford Cathedral School) (1881 PP, Hereford)
The Anatomy of Tobacco, or Smoking Methodised, Divided & Considered after a New Fashion
(1884 George Redway, London) - by Leolinus Silurensis
The Heptameron, or Marguerite Queen of Navarre (1886 The Dryden Press) - Ltd Ed
(Trans) The Fortunate Lovers : 27 Novels of the Queen of Navarre (1887 Geo Redway)
The Chronicles of Clemendy (1888 Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists, London)
Thesaurus Incantatus (1888)
The Way to Attain (1889)
Fantastic Tales (1890 PP)

1891-1900
(Trans) The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (1894 PP - 12 vols)
The Great God of Pan and The Inmost Light (1894 John Lane) - 2 novellas
The Three Imposters, or The Transmutations (1895 John Lane)

1901-1920
Hieroglyphics (1902 Grant Richards)
The House of Hidden Light (1904)
Dr Stiggins (1906 Francis Griffiths)
The House of Souls (1906 Grant Richards)
The Hill of Dreams (1907 Grant Richards) (1922 Secker) - frontis S H Sime
[His first novel]
The Angel of Mons : The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War (1915 Simpkin, Marshall) - 86pp
(1915 Simpkin Marshall. 2nd Ed) - 133pp
The Great Return (1915 The Faith Press)
The Terror : A Fantasy (1917 Duckworth)
War and the Christian Faith (1918 Skeffington)

1921-1923
Pantomime of the Year (1921) - Pamphlet
The Secret Glory (1922 Martin Secker)
Far Off Things (1922 MS) - Autobiography. 100 signed Large Paper Ed
The Caerleon Edition (1923 MS) - 9 vols
Things Near and Far (1923 MS) - Autobiography
The Collector's Craft (1923)
The Grand Trouvaille (1923)
The Chronicles of Clemendy (1923 PP, Carbonnek) - 1050 signed
Fantastic Tales or the Way to Attain (1923 PP, Carbonnek)
The Shining Pyramid (1923 Covici-McGee, Chicago) (1925 Secker)
Strange Roads and With the Gods in Spring (1923 The Classics Press)

1924-1925
Dog and Duck : A London Calendar (1924 Cape)
The London Adventure, or the Art of Wandering (1924 Secker) - Autobiography
The Glorious Mystery (1924 Covici-McGee, Chicago)
Precious Balms (1924 Spurr & Swift) - 265
Ornaments in Jade (1924 Knopf, NY) - 1000 signed
The Canning Wonder (1925 Chatto & Windus)
The Shining Pyramid (1925 Martin Secker) + 250 signed
The Secret of the Sangraal (1925)
A Preface to Casanova's Escape (1925) - 25 copies
One Hundred Merrie & Delightsome Stories (1925 PP, Carbonnek) - 1250 signed with Clara Tice

1926-1940
Dreads and Drolls (1926 MS)
Notes and Queries : Essays (1926 Spurr & Swift)
A Souvenir of Cadby Hall (1927 J Lyons & Co) - Pamphlet
The Parish of Amersham (c1930) - Leaflet
Beneath the Barley (1931) - 25 copies
In the Eighties (1931 Amersham) - 10 copies
Parsifal (1931) - Film Company pamphlet
A Few Letters from Arthur Machen (1932 The Rowfant Club, Ohio)
The Green Round (1933 Ernest Benn)
The Cosy Room and Other stories (1936 Rich & Cowan)
The Children of the Pool and Other stories (1936 Hutchinson)

After 1941
Holy Terrors (1946 Penguin)
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1948 Knopf, NY)
Selected Letters (1988 Aquarian Press)
Ritual and Other Stories (2004 Tartarus Press £35)

READING
Harold Begbie : On the Side of the Angels - A Reply to Arthur Machen
(1915 Hodder & Stoughton)
I E Taylor : Angels, Saints & Bowmen of Mons - An Answer to Mr Arthur Machen & Mr Harold Begbie
(1916 Theosophical Publishing Society, London)
Vincent Starrett : Arthur Machen - A Novelist of Ecstasy & Sin, with two Hitherto Uncollected Poems
(1918 Chicago) - 250
Henry Danielson : Arthur Machen - A Bibliography (1923 Henry Danielson, London) - 500
W F Gekle : Arthur Machen - Weaver of Fantasy (1949 Round Table Press NY)
Aidan Reynolds & William Charlton : Arthur Machen - A Short Account of His Life & Work
(1963 John Baker for the Richards Press)
Wesley D Sweetser : Arthur Machen (1964 Twayne)
Adrian Goldstone & Wesley Sweetser : A Bibliography of Arthur Machen
(1965 Univ of Texas) - 500. With Wesley Sweetser
Starrett vs. Machen : A Record of Discovery and Correspondence (1977 Autolycus Press, St Louis)
(Ed) R Dobson, G Brangham & R A Gilbert : Arthur Machen - Selected Letters (1988 Aquarian Press)
Mark Valentine : Arthur Machen (c1995 Seren, Bridgend)
Vincent Starrett : Arthur Machen - A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin (1996 Tartarus)