‘All Blood and Fire’: The Twin Horrors of Arthur Machen’s The Three Impostors
Arthur Machen’s novel The Three Impostors is a good reminder about the horrors of living in a godless cosmos.

Arthur Machen’s novel The Three Impostors is a good reminder about the horrors of living in a godless cosmos.

Machen’s earlier work effectively manifests the horrific implications of an existence without God; his later work displays compelling, often beautiful, ways God’s presence breaks through our barriers to keep Him at bay.
I would suspect that the “horror” genre is one of the most unpopular genres — literary, cinematic, or otherwise — for Christians, and understandably so.
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