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Arthur Machen

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    (March 3, 1863-December 15, 1947)
    Born in Caerleon, Wales, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Arthur Llewellyn Jones
    Welsh author
    Best-known for his science fiction and fantasy stories
    Novels include The Great God Pan, The Hill of Dreams and The Inmost Light
    Also wrote The Children of the Pool, a collection of short stories

Why he might be annoying:

    His first book was The Anatomy of Tobacco.
    Began acting when he was almost forty and began working as a journalist when he was almost fifty.
    As a journalist, he was responsible for the Angels of Mons hoax, reporting early in WWI that the ghosts of the Battle of Agincourt rose to prevent a unit of British soldiers from being overrun by the Germans.
    In his early writings he used archaic medieval English.
    He wrote a three volume autobiography twenty years before he died.
    He briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a group of Freemason wannabes.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He came from a poor family, had frequent money troubles, and could not afford to attend university.
    He lost his first wife to cancer.
    He was influenced by Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and tales of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
    He was an influence on H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Stephen King and Peter Straub among others.
    Later in life, he became deeply devoted to his Anglican Christian faith.
    His novel The Secret Glory inspired 20th century stories about the Holy Grail like The Da Vinci Code and Indiana Jones and Last Crusade.
    The sexuality in The Great God Pan was considered scandalous when it was first published.

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    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 70.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying