Arthur Machen -- Weaver of Fantasy

Excerpt: "It was, I suppose, during the closing months of the First World War that an urbane and witty gentleman, writing in the Confederate city of Richmond, set down these words in the course of one of his interminable, and witty and urbane, monologues: “I wonder if you are familiar with that uncanny genius whom the London directory prosaically lists as Arthur Machen?” Since there was no reply, as indeed none was expected, the amiable Charteris chatted on about Arthur Machen and, oddly enough,