Arthur Machen was a Welsh author of supernatural tales and decadent horror who drew upon paganism and the occult to color his fiction, which include the novel "The Hill of Dreams" (1907) and the novella "The Great God Pan" (1894). His short story "The Bowmen," about phantom archers fighting the advance of German soldiers in the First World War, was published in a London newspaper in 1914 and taken as an eyewitness account, fueling rumors that the Angels of Mons defended Britain from its enemies in an act of Divine intervention.
"There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead." - Arthur Machen, "The Red Hand"
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