Belosic, Ray
email: RBelosic@aol.com
snail: 10580 Dunleer Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90064
interests: Golden Dawn, Machen's relations with Yeats & Crowley, Arnold Bennett, G.B.Shaw

Brangham, Godfrey
Clemendy Cottage,
14 New Market Street,
Usk, Gwent, NP5 1AT

Branson, James W
email: ifran_klarhet@yahoo.com
snail: 11218 Glenora, Houston, Texas 77065, USA
interests: Arthur Machen, Clark Ashton Smith, Sarban & other literary fiction, G.I. Gurdjieff, A.O.Spare, classical symphonic music

Cantwell, Jeremy (FoAM Treasurer and Membership Secretary)
snail: Apt 5, 26 Hervey Road, Blackheath, LONDON, SE3 8BS
email: jcantwell@ndo.co.uk

Cuyler "Ned" Brooks
email: nedbrooks@sprynet.com
Link to website
snail:4817 Dean Lane, Lilburn, GA 30047, USA
interests: Collects Machen and other fantasy authors. Has published work by Machen as well as a variety of fanzines. Publication of Machen collection: Guinevere and Lancelot available through above.

Dobson, Roger
email: rogeralandobson@hotmail.com
snail: 182 Barns Road, Oxford, OX4 3RG Currently Publicity manager for FOAM
founder/editor of The Lost Club, an organization dedicated to those fin de siecle writers of whom not enough is heard today. Currently editing John Gawsworth's biography of Machen for FOAM publication

Eckersley, Adrian
website: this now, here now, always
see also here for my darker side
email: adrian@machensoc.demon.co.uk
snail: 28 Queens Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RS
interests: Machen and psychedelics, the fantastic as true vision, paganism. More generally interested in literary fiction and painting.

Ellis, Phillip A.
email: ghyle@hotmail.com
snail: 38 Enid Street, Tweed Heads, NSW Australia 2485
interests: H.P.Lovecraft, Clark Ashton-Smith, weird verse, Jung, history, classics, forensic psychology. Currently compiling a bibliography of Machen's work.

Faunus correspondence see Ray Russell/ Mark Valentine, below

Games, Gwilym, M.CILIP. (Machenalia editor)
If you have any news on Machen, related books music or to review, or anything to promote in print to members of the Friends, Gwilym would like to hear about it.
Email: Gwilix@nospam.yahoo.co.uk
surface mail: 9 Henage Drive, Llynderw, Westcross, Swansea, SA3 5BR
As well as editing Machenalia, Gwilym is Moderator of the Caermaen mailing list.
Interests: include Libraries, Decadence, Vampirology, Lovecraftania, Arthurian Legend, the Occult and the Gothic subculture.

Gault, R.T.
"Ditch" is sadly no longer with us, but his "Order of the Twilight Star" website is still up and running (see below), and one of the most consistently interesting sites for Machenians.
Link to website
interests: occult/ literary matters esp. Golden Dawn, most esp. Machen's "Three Impostors"

Gekle, William
wrote a biography of Machen published in 1949 titled Arthur Machen Weaver of Fantasy. View contents of his collection of letters and other documents now in Princeton University Library.

For Ghost Story Society see Roden below.

Granger-Taylor, Nicolas
Flat 2, 35 Grafton Way,
London W1T 5DB
Home: 020 7387 7942. Mobile: 07791029770.
Email: ngrangertaylor@aol.com
Nick organizes "The London Adventure" - walks, mostly in central London, devoted to following the paths of obscure and neglected authors who have left traces in the city. He is also something of a painter.

Hyde, David
Website: Joan's Scrapbook has several articles of interest to Machenians, inc. the Hudleston family and Sylvia Townsend-Warner
email: r2hyde@yahoo.com.au
Interests: Photography, multimedia.

Johnsson, Henrik
link to website
email: castaigne@swipnet.se
interests: website lists all Tartarus publications.

Kosok, Christian
email: Linas@hol.gr
Lives in Greece: interested in psychedelia, Lovecraft, the fantastic.

"Litrix"
This website, run by Robert Raven, is for serious readers. As well as Machen's "Hill of Dreams" you will find classic fiction by such as Poe, M.R. and Henry James, and William Hope Hodgson.
Click here to visit Litrix

"The London Adventure" - a programme of walks around literary London

"The Lost Club" - a journal devoted to the byways of literature

Lovecraft Scholars
A new group devoted to the scholarly discussion of the philosophical/cultural/literary significance of the life and works of H. P. Lovecraft. If you would like to join the group, or know of others who might be interested in doing so, sign up at: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/LovecraftScholars

McClintock, David A., email mcbooks@cisnet.com snail: 1454 Sheridan Ave, N.E.Warren O.H. 44483-3968 interests: collecting and dealing in books, including Machen and the literary scene of his time in England, France and USA.

Machenalia correspondence see Gwilym Games, entry above.

Mann, Bob
bobmann@supanet.com
The Flat, 56 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5RU.
01803 866250.
Interests include: Arthur Machen; John Cowper Powys; Clark Ashton Smith; regional/supernatural/fantasy literature; obscure Devon writers no one else has ever heard of; history of ideas.

Michaluk, Steve
email: smichaluk@hotmail.com
interests: Jules Verne, Talbot Mundy, Mitchell S.Buck

Niemi, Todd E.
email: atniemi@gmail.com
307 Fullam Hill Road, Fitzwilliam, NH 03447, USA
Interests: bringing Machen's works to the screen (currently adapting The Hill of Dreams into a screenplay); 20th century poetry and fiction; the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, cultures and peoples; archeology; anthropology; philosophy; the psychology of memory and dreaming, etc

Preece, Jon
9 Ridgeway Drive,
Newport, South Wales, NP9 5AR email: jon@ereddison.com

Roden, Barbara
Link to Ghost Story Society website
email: ashtree@ash-tree.bc.ca
snail: PO Box 1360, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada VOK 1AO
interests: ghost-stories, both contemporary and historical (see website for publication details)

Russell, Ray (FOAM Chair and co-editor of Faunus)
Link to Tartarus Press website
email: tartarus@pavilion.co.uk
snail: Coverley House, Carlton-in-Coverdale, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY
Ray is Tartarus Press.

Salmondson, Jessica
Link to website
email: violet@drizzle.com
snail: PO Box 20610, Seattle WA 98102, USA
interests: Jessica does book catalogues. She has a special interest in, and much information on, lost-race fantasies (see website).

Samuels, Mark (FoAM Secretary)
email mark699@btinternet.com
snail: 210 Archway Road
London N6 5AX
Link to Mark's website

Smith, Iain
email: iscr@fish.co.uk
interests: Iain is founder of the Ancient Order of Banwick, a sub-group of the Friends with interests and loyalties in the north of England; he also publishes Eskimo Chain, a Syd Barrett fanzine, which has recently developed through spontaneous combustion into a full-blown website.
Go there now!

Svenson, Ola
email: dan.svenson@sverige.net
snail: Angelholmsvagen 8, S-266, 31 Munka-Ljungby, Sweden
interests: Ola is interested in all aspects of non-realist fiction, and in mysticism, alchemy and the occult.

Tartarus Press. For other Tartarus details see Russell above.

Thomas, Edward - The Edward Thomas Fellowship
Click here to visit a site devoted to Machen's finest poet-contemporary.

Valentine, Mark (FOAM Secretary and co-editor of Faunus)
email: lostclub@btopenworld.com
snail: Stable Cottage, Priest Bank Road, Kildwick, Keighley, BD20 9BH.
Mark edits "Wormwood", a journal of discussion for fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature" and coedits "The Lost Club Journal"

Wilson, Dave
email: dcwilson@mcmaster.ca
interests: is rumoured to be adapting an episode from "Three Impostors' for the stage

Wood, Jonathan
e-mail: thratheewoodz@hotmail.com
snail: BM Spellbound, London WC1N 3XX
Interests: produces irregular catalogues of interesting and obscure second-hand stock. Proprietor of the Arbor Vitae Press and publishes 'Through the Woods', an idiosyncratic journal of weird fiction, poetry and discourse specialising in lovelorn reveries, obscurantism and cultural timeslips.

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