This is an automatically translated description

Arthur Macken /1863–1947/ – English writer and mystic, member of the occult society «Order of the Golden Dawn», whose works significantly influenced the formation and development of bizarre and mystical literature. One of the most important motifs in the writer's work is the folklore image of the "little people", the faeries, whom, contrary to the established tradition, he describes as ancient, mysterious and hostile creatures endowed with supernatural properties and mystical knowledge, as well as other realities hidden behind the veil of everyday life. The way to them opens through long-forgotten and forbidden rituals - the remnants of secret, almost lost knowledge. The publication of Arthur Macken's most famous story, The Great God Pan, stirred up the society of the time, which saw in it hints of ancient mystical rituals and sexual perversions.

Among the admirers of Arthur Machen's work was Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who spoke highly of his work in his famous essay «Supernatural Horror in Literature». It is believed that Meken's texts significantly influenced Lovecraft in the creation of his Cthulhu Mythos. Other famous contemporaries, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, William Butler Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, also admired the writer's works. The famous mystic Alistair Crowley noted the magical truthfulness of Meken's works, Jorge Luis Borges called Arthur Meken a great writer who predicted the emergence of magical realism in his work, and Stephen King once said in an interview that perhaps The Great God Pan is the best work of horror literature ever written in English.