A review by jayrothermel
The Terror by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Mystery & Detective by Arthur Machen

5.0

This is my third read of The Terror. It is the first time all the disparate pieces of narrative evidence arrayed by Machen have hit me full-force. Brilliant depiction of uncertainty, anxiety, panic, and of course "terror" in wartime. It achieves levels of emotional poignancy unsurpassed in Machen's longer works.