Arthur Machen

The Terror Arthur Machen

"Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities." The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it, and a shut gate. The roof was quite undamaged -- this had had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient violence to kill work-people in the building, but the building itself showed no wounds or scars."

The plot centers around the mysterious deaths of people around the country during the middle of WW1, all with different MO's yet something mysterious seems to connect them all. The majority of the book centers around how these strange incidents center on a small seaside town in Wales given the codename 'Meirion' and how the residents, townsfolk and visitors attempt to untangle the mystery as it impacts them in their part of the world... This is a suspenseful novella about strange deaths in England during World War 1. Are these deaths somehow connected, and could the Germans have something to do with it? This fantastic story is filled with suspense and is a real page turner.

"Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities." The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it, and a shut gate. The roof was quite undamaged -- this had had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient violence to kill work-people in the building, but the building itself showed no wounds or scars."

The plot centers around the mysterious deaths of people around the country during the middle of WW1, all with different MO's yet something mysterious seems to connect them all. The majority of the book centers around how these strange incidents center on a small seaside town in Wales given the codename 'Meirion' and how the residents, townsfolk and visitors attempt to untangle the mystery as it impacts them in their part of the world... This is a suspenseful novella about strange deaths in England during World War 1. Are these deaths somehow connected, and could the Germans have something to do with it? This fantastic story is filled with suspense and is a real page turner.