There! Can you imagine what would happen if one submitted the above as an outline or sketch of a possible plot to our really modern writers, the veritable Georgians? I don't think that they would be cross, or snap your head off, or wonder audibly what theatre put on transpontine melodrama in these days, or say it was interesting to find that Sue still found readers. There would be nothing violent of this kind; only the slight movement of a weary brow, before the conversation flowed back to its proper channel of "complexes" and skin-disease. Because you see, the Georgian novelist knows that the stuff of which we have been talking is not Life, has no relation to Life, and in a word, doesn't happen.
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This is a collection of short pieces Machen wrote for the "The Graphic". They are mostly factual though some are fictionalized accounts of true stories. They include strange stories, bits of curiosity, oddities and even a ghost story. Typical titles: "The Strange Case of Emily Weston", "Morduck the Witch", "Casanova in London". a must-read for any Machen fan.
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