The Terror

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Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 – December 15, 1947) was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. His surname rhymes with blacken. Source: Wikipedia

Also available by Machen:

The Great God Pan (1894)

The White People (1906)

The Hill Of Dreams (1907)

Holy Terrors (1946)

The Bowmen (1914)

The Red Hand (1906)

The Novel of the Black Seal (1895)

The Shining Pyramid (1895)

Out of the Earth (1923)

The Inmost Light (1894)

Chapter 1 The Coming of the Terror

After two years we are turning once more to the morning's news with a sense of appetite and glad expectation. There were thrills at the beginning of the war: the thrill of horror and of a doom that seemed at once incredible and certain; this was when Namur fell and the German host swelled like a flood over the French fields, and drew very near to the walls of Paris. Then we felt the thrill of exultation when the good news came that the awful tide had been turned back, that Paris and the world were safe; for awhile at all events.

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