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autobiographies, Far Off Things (Martin Secker, 1922), Things Near and Far (Martin Secker, 1923), and The London Adventure (Martin Secker, 1924); the first two were reprinted as The Autobiography of Arthur Machen (Richards Press, 1951). His periodical essays were gathered in Dog and Duck (Knopf, 1924), Dreads and Drolls (Martin Secker, 1926), Notes and Queries (Spurr & Swift, 1926), and in two volumes assembled by Vincent Starrett, The Shining Pyramid (Covici-McGee, 1923) and The Glorious Mystery (Covici-McGee, 1924), but the great majority—especially his hundreds of articles for the London Evening News (1910–21)—remain uncollected. An important recent volume of essays is The Secret of the Sangraal, edited by R. B. Russell (Tartarus Press, 1995). Russell has also edited an expanded edition of Dreads and Drolls (Tartarus Press, 2007).
    A slim collection of letters— A Few Letters from Arthur Machen (Rowfant Club, 1932)—appeared in Machen’s lifetime. A much more substantial volume is Selected Letters, edited by Roger Dobson, Godfrey Brangham, and R. A. Gilbert (Aquarian Press, 1989).
    The Caerleon Edition of Machen’s Works (Martin Secker, 1923; 9 vols.) is an impressive compilation. A more recent omnibus is The Collected Arthur Machen (Duckworth, 1988).

SECONDARY SOURCES
    There is still no satisfactory biography of Machen; perhaps scholars have been intimidated by the brilliance of Machen’s own autobiographies. Three biographies—Aidan Reynolds and William Charlton’s Arthur Machen: A Short Account of His Life and Work (Richards Press, 1963); Mark Valentine’s Arthur Machen (Seren, 1994); and John Gawsworth’s The Life of Arthur Machen (Tartarus Press, 2005 [probably written in the 1930s])—all contain useful matter. Machen’s wife, Purefoy, wrote a memoir that has been published as Where Memory Slept: The Memoirs of Purefoy Machen, edited by Godfrey Brangham (Green Round Press, 1991). The best critical study remains Wesley D. Sweetser’s Arthur Machen (Twayne, 1964). Helpful criticism can be found in several small-press items, especially two booklets edited by Mark Valentine and Roger Dobson, Arthur Machen: Apostle of Wonder (Caermaen, 1985) and Arthur Machen: Artist and Mystic (Caermaen, 1986). Adrian Goldstone and Wesley Sweetser’s A Bibliography of Arthur Machen (University of Texas Press, 1965) is exhaustive but now very much out of date. The Arthur Machen Society published a number of interesting items, including the journal Avallaunius. A later organization, The Friends of Arthur Machen, continues to publish the journal Faunus.
    Other criticism can be found in the following:
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    Adcock, Arthur St. John. “Arthur Machen.” In The Glory That Was Grub Street. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1928, 213–44.
    Bjärstorp, Sara. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890 s. Lund, Sweden: Department of English, Lund University, 2005.
    Eckersley, Adrian. “A Theme in the Early Work of Arthur Machen: ‘Degeneration.’” English Literature in Transition 35 (1992): 277–87.
    Gekle, William Francis. Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy. Millbrook, NY: Round Table Press, 1949.
    Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. “The Enchanted City: Arthur Machen and Locality.” Durham University Journal 87, no. 2 (July 1995): 301–13.
    Gunther, John. “The Truth about Arthur Machen.” Bookman (New York) 61 (July 1925): 571–574.
    Hillyer, Robert. “Arthur Machen.” Atlantic Monthly 179 (May 1947): 138–40.
    â€”——. “Arthur Machen.” Yale Review 13 (October 1923): 174–76.
    Jordan-Smith, Paul. “Black Magic: An Impression of Arthur Machen.” In On Strange Altars. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924, 214–35.
    Joshi, S. T. “Arthur Machen: The Mystery of the Universe.” In The Weird Tale. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990,