The Ceremony

Arthur Machen is a name that horror and fantasy fiction fans will be familiar with. In this book, he tells the story of a young lady who is having visions of a grey stone in the woods. "She often used to think of the strangeness of very early life; one came, it seemed, from a dark cloud......more

The Ceremony is one of ten literary vignettes contained in Machen's Ornaments in Jade volume. These short narratives are considered by most as prose poems which begin and end in medias res where a character is introduced in the midst of a scene emphasizing magical instances, spiritual experiences, a......more

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