{"id":2959,"date":"2008-03-27T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/27\/arthur-machen-book-covers\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T02:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:11:29","slug":"arthur-machen-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/27\/arthur-machen-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Machen book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080514193504\/http:\/\/www.cafes.net\/ditch\/macgal.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/machen1.jpg\" alt=\"machen1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The House of Souls (1923).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, a handful anyway. The late RT Gault put <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080514193504\/http:\/\/www.cafes.net\/ditch\/macgal.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a page of Machen cover scans<\/a> on his book site which also included the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafes.net\/ditch\/Elsewhere.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Absolute Elsewhere<\/a> catalogue of &#8220;Fantastic, Visionary, and Esoteric Literature in the 1960s and 1970s&#8221;. The cover for <em>The House of Souls<\/em> is a very odd piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/06\/sidney-sime-and-lord-dunsany\/\">Sidney Sime<\/a> and going by some of Sime&#8217;s Dunsany illustrations I think this was how he thought souls actually looked. <em>The Three Imposters<\/em> (below) was part of John Lane&#8217;s Keynotes series which also included Machen&#8217;s <em>The Great God Pan<\/em> among the titles, all of which sported covers designed by Aubrey Beardsley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080514193504\/http:\/\/www.cafes.net\/ditch\/macgal.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/machen2.jpg\" alt=\"machen2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Three Imposters (1895).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Souls (1923).\u00a0 Well, a handful anyway. The late RT Gault put a page of Machen cover scans on his book site which also included the excellent Absolute Elsewhere catalogue of &#8220;Fantastic, Visionary, and Esoteric Literature in the 1960s and 1970s&#8221;. The cover for The House of Souls is a very odd piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/27\/arthur-machen-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur Machen book covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,50,42,56,22,48],"tags":[197,94,458,5829,1809],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-books","category-dance","category-horror","category-illustrators","tag-arthur-machen","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-john-lane","tag-rt-gault","tag-sidney-sime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}