Arthur Machen is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language."

Machen was a great enthusiast for literature that expressed the "rapture, beauty, adoration, wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, desire for the unknown" that he summed up in the word ecstasy.

The Novels

• THE HILL OF DREAMS
• THE TERROR
• THE SECRET GLORY
• EPILOGUE
• THE GREEN ROUND

The Shorter Fiction

• THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY: OR THE HISTORY OF THE IX JOYOUS JOURNEYS. CARBONNEK
• INTRODUCTION
• EPISTLE DEDICATORY
• MASTER PERROT’S DISCOURSE OF ALE
• THE PORTREEVE’S GAUDY-DAY
• STRANGE STORY OF A RED JAR
• THE SPIGOT CLERK’S FIRST TALE
• HOW THE FOLK OF ABERGAVENNY WERE PESTERED BY AN ACCURSED KNIGHT
• THE LORD MALTWORM’S FIRST TALE
• HOW A MAN OF CAERLEON FOUND A GREAT TREASURE
• THE RUBRICAN’S FIRST TALE
• THE TANKARD MARSHALL’S FIRST TALE
• THE QUEST OF CONSTANCY
• BY THE WAY
• THE SPIGOT CLERK’S SECOND TALE.
• THE PORTREEVE’S SOLEMNITY
• THE TALE TOLD BY THE SEIGNEUR OF LA ROCHE NEMOURS
• THE JOURNEY HOMEWARD
• SIGNOR PIERO LATINI’S TALE
• THE LORD MALTWORM’S SECOND TALE
• THE RUBRICAN’S SECOND TALE
• EPILOGUE
• THE GREAT GOD PAN, AND THE INMOST LIGHT
• The Great God Pan
• The Inmost Light
• THE THREE IMPOSTORS: OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS
• THREE IMPOSTORS PROLOGUE.
• ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS.
• THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT.
• NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY.
• ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER.
• NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL.
• INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BAR.
• THE DECORATIVE IMAGINATION.
• NOVEL OF THE IRON MAID.
• THE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATER.
• NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER.
• STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN CLERKENWELL.
• HISTORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECTACLES
• ADVENTURE OF THE DESERTED RESIDENCE.
• THE HOUSE OF SOULS
• Introduction
• A Fragment of Life
• The White People
• The Red Hand
• THE ANGELS OF MONS
• Introduction
• The Bowmen
• The Soldiers’ Rest
• The Monstrance
• The Dazzling Light
• The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts
• Postscript
• THE GREAT RETURN
• THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1923
• The Priest and the Barber
• The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita
• A Wonderful Woman
• The Lost Club
• Nature, or, The Splendid Holiday
• Drake’s Drum
• THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1924
• The Arrow-Head Character
• The Eyes on the Wall
• The Search for the Bowl
• The Secret of the Pyramid
• The Little People
• THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY
• The Rose Garden
• Psychology, or, Fragments of Paper
• The Holy Things
• A New Christmas Carol
• THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES
• The Cosy Room
• A Double Return
• Munitions of War
• The Gift of Tongues
• The Islington Mystery
• Awaking
• Opening the Door
• The Compliments of the Season
• THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL, AND OTHER STORIES
• Children of the Pool
• Out of the Earth
• Change
• The Exalted Omega
• The Tree of Life
• Out of the Picture
• The Bright Boy

UNCOLLECTED TALES

• Candletime
• Cidermas
• The Town of Long Ago
• Over the Gate
• Of the Isle of Shadows, and of the Strange Customs of the Men That Dwell There
• A Further Account of The Academy of Lagado
• Tales from Barataria
• Sir John’s Chef
• Rus in Urbe
• By the Brook
• The Autophone
• The Marriage of Panurge
• The Brook Farm
• A Remarkable Coincidence
• An Underground Adventure
• The Young Man in the Blue Suit
• The War Song of the Welsh
• The Light That Can Never Be Put Out
• Jocelyn’s Escape
• The Story of Sergt Richard Haughton and What Happened To Him on the Somme
• The Calvary of Azay
• 7b Coney Court
• Ritual
• Johnny Double
• N
• The Happy Children
• The Dover Road

The Poems

• ELEUSINIA
• THE ASSEMBLING.
• THE SEA-SHORE
• THE FAST
• THE PROCESSION
• THE DAY OF TORCHES
• IACCHUS
• THE INITIATION
• THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD
• THE PRAISE OF MYFANWY

The Non-Fiction

• THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, 1725-1798
• THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO
• HIEROGLYPHICS
• DR STIGGINS: HIS VIEWS AND PRINCIPLES
• MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
• THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL
• THE STROLLER
• WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN LONDON
• THE GLITTER OF THE BROOK
• LONDON THIRTY YEARS AGO
• THE JOY OF LONDON
• RE-DISCOVERY OF LONDON
• DR JOHNSON’S DISAPPEARING ACT
• TOM O’BEDLAM AND HIS SONG
• THE ONLY WAY
• THE GRAY’S INN COFFEE HOUSE
• A NOTE ON POETRY