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Name: The Hill of Dreams
Rating: 3.666666666666 (9 reviews)
Author: Arthur Machen

Lucian Taylor, a writer in London, is tormented by an inner faun—an embodiment of his darker impulses or an encounter with a pagan faerie realm. As the creature’s influence grows, so does reality, trapping Lucian in a spiraling descent that reflects the doomed artist archetype Arthur Machen explored in his own life and work.

First publish date: 1907

Genre: Fantasy/Dark Fantasy

Authors: Arthur Machen

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