Machenstruck: Tributes to the Apostle of Wonder

by Mark Valentine (Editor), Roger Dobson (Editor), Michael Powell (Contributor)

'Machenstruck: A Choice Compendium of tributes to the Apostle of Wonder as Selected by the Society of Young men in Spectacles'

This booklet, a long-overdue response to Precious Balms, contains extracts from some of the finest appreciatory writings on Machen. Taken from a variety of mostly out-of-print studies and memoirs, many of the passages will be unfamiliar to readers.

Our closing tribute, by the distinguished British film director Mr. Michael Powell - a Machen enthusiast since 1928 - has been specially written for this publication.

16 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1988

About the author

Mark Valentine is an English author, biographer and editor.

Valentine’s short stories have been published by a number of small presses and in anthologies since the 1980s, and the exploits of his series character, "The Connoisseur", an occult detective, were published as The Collected Connoisseur in 2010.

As a biographer, Valentine has published a life of Arthur Machen in 1985 (Seren Press), and a study of Sarban, Time, A Falconer (Tartarus Press), is published in 2010. He has also written numerous articles for the Book and Magazine Collector magazine, and introductions for various books, including editions of work by Walter de la Mare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, J. Meade Falkner and others.

Valentine also edits Wormwood (Tartarus Press), a journal dedicated to fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature, and has also edited anthologies, including The Werewolf Pack (Wordsworth, 2008) and The Black Veil (Wordsworth, 2008).