The Great Return by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Fantasy

THEY FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL IN WALES DURING WORLD WAR I

"And then, from what they do tell me, all the people did go mad, crying and weeping and calling out all manner of things at the top of their voices. And at last nothing would do but they must all go up to the churchyard, and there Philip James and Lewis Prothero they swear friendship to one another for a long age before the old cross, and everyone sings praises. And my cousin he do declare to me that there were men standing in that crowd that he did never see before in Llantrisant in all his life, and his heart was shaken within him as if it had been in a whirl-wind."

I had listened to all this in silence. I said then:

"What does your cousin mean by that? Men that he had never seen in Llantrisant? What men?"

"The people," he said very slowly, "call them the Fishermen."

And suddenly there came into my mind the "Rich Fisherman" who in the old legend guards the holy mystery of the Graal.

Author: Arthur Machen
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 07/01/2011
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781463898274

About the Author
Machen, Arthur: - "Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language). He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons."