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Harlesden, c. 1875

Arthur Machen and the Horror of Harlesden (Part 2)

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Reprinted, with minor variations, from The Willesden Local History Society Journal, No. 34, winter 2011/12 Last time we saw that the Welsh fantasy writer Arthur Machen (pronounced so as to rhyme with ‘bracken’) wrote… Continue reading →

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Arthur Machen c. 1905

Arthur Machen and the Horror of Harlesden (Part 1)

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Reprinted from The Willesden Local History Society Journal, No. 34, winter 2011/12 Having been a teenager in the 1970s, when most Christmases saw the BBC screening an adaptation of an M.R. James ghost story,… Continue reading →

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