Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> The Darkly Bright site has published a fairly long
> essay by me with this title. Recommended to thopen-minded, the curious, and the readers of "The Great Return," The Terror, "Dr. Duthoit's Vision,"
> "N," etc.
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darklybrightpress.com]
> r-writings-by-arthur-machen/
Dale: The link to your essay is herewith reposted. Just wondering what your opinion is of the stories of John Metcalfe, and/or his novel THE FEASTING DEAD? If by chance you have read only the latter and his famous tales "The Bad Lands" and "The Smoking Leg", let me recommend the other stories in TSL to you heartily. As an exquisite stylist with certain affinities to the Machen reader. I wouldn't be surprised if Metcalfe had read THE HILL OF DREAMS. He has a tragic vision, compromised by a vaguely satirical sense of pathos.
jkh