SOURCE: "Marvels to Measure," in The Nation, New York, Vol. CV, No. 2730, October 25, 1917, pp. 456-57.

In the following excerpt, the reviewer outlines the plot of Machen's short novel The Terror.

In a recent number of the Yale Review was an entertainingly irresponsible paper by Katharine Fullerton Gerould, with some such title as "British Novelists, Ltd." The performance was, in fact, in the best manner of the current British skit-writer, or literary skitterer. Its target was an alleged uniformity of style and substance in the work of the best-praised younger Britons of this period. Almost any one of them, complains Mrs. Gerould, might have written any novel by any other of them. Undeniably, there is strong family likeness: as witness three recent stories, The Wonder, by J. D. Beresford, The Coming, by J. C. Snaith, and The Terror, by Arthur Machen. The similarity begins with their titles; but every...