Evil Fairy Folk: Arthur Machen’s Novel Of The Black Seal

Join Cian at the cabin for a beer as he gets to know influential Welsh writer of the strange, the inimitable Arthur Machen, and focuses on his 1895 tale of a Victorian scientist searching for a forgotten race of malevolent ab-human ‘fairy folk’ living in (or under?) the Welsh hills. Discussion covers: -Psychogeography & hauntology of Machen’s work -the ‘orientalising’ of Britain’s Celtic fringe -Victorian pseudo-history -Margaret Murray & the Witch-Cult Hypothesis (of course!) -Machen’s influence on (you guessed it) HP Lovecraft Wide Atlantic Weird Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10108989 The Three Imposters, Arthur machen, 1895 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35517/35517-h/35517-h.htm Ghostland, Edward Parnell, 2019 https://edwardparnell.com/ Caerleon.net, Arthur Machen http://www.caerleon.net/history/machen/text/index.html Supernatural Horror in Literature, HP Lovecraft, 1927 https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx Conan And The Little People, From An Underwood No 5, Todd B. Vick, 2019 http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2019/01/conan-and-little-people-robert-e-howard.html The Horror Of Geologic Time, Aaron Worth, 2018 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/31/the-horror-of-geologic-time/