Krystelle Fitzpatrick's Reviews > The Terror

A great little tale of supernatural fear that never quite has a full reveal, this is my first stumble into Machen in over a decade- and his work holds up! I think there’s a wonderful mystery and sense of claustrophobia in the small English village, and the deaths are gratuitously described enough to ensure that the reader gives a shudder. There’s also a discourse about man’s duty to the earth and the fear of the known enemy rather than the unknown. It’s easier to assign blame to something that we already tangibly know and fear rather than consider other possibilities. This is particularly pertinent here and holds a lot of applicability to our present world as well.