About the book: 2024 / Arthur Macken is one of the most mysterious writers of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. His work intertwined the traditions of romance and gothic, he became the founder of literature about supernatural horror, fans of his prose included Oscar Wilde, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges and Guillermo del Toro. He, like no one else, influenced the development of horror and many representatives of the genre, including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and Adam Neville. His works caused a scandal; they horrified his contemporaries, but they delighted his descendants. A writer ahead of his time, who laid down the traditions of his own, unique mysticism, Macken still remains, along with Lovecraft, an unsurpassed master of strange and sinister stories, where ancient gods and creatures come to life, where fear can lurk in the most everyday little things, and green forests and valleys hide monsters beyond the control of human imagination and reason.