Arthur Machen looks back on the 1870s and early 1880s: his childhood in a remote rectory in Gwent, the hills and Roman ruins that haunted his imagination, and his arrival in London as a poor young writer, dining on milk cake at cheap tea-shops. It is the first volume of his memoirs, and the landscape of his fiction is everywhere in it.
Essential reading for admirers of The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams. Download the free EPUB.