James MachinJames Machin is an associate researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. His editorial work includes British Weird Tales (Handheld Press, 2020), Faunus: the Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen (Strange Attractor, 2019), Of Mud nd Flame: a Penda’s Fen Sourcebook (Strange Attractor, 2019), a special edition of Textual Practice on weird fiction (31:6, 2017), ’Twixt Dog and Wolf (1901) by C. F. Keary (Valancourt Books, 2017), Arthur Machen’s The Cosy Room and other stories (Tartarus Press, 2016), and co-editing Arthur Machen’s 1890s Notebook (Tartarus Press, 2016). Since 2013 he has been editor and co-editor of Faunus, the journal of the Arthur Machen society, and he has also been an editorial assistant on the Birkbeck journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. He has published work—including a monograph and peer-reviewed essays and chapters—on the Gothic, supernatural, and decadent and fin-de-siècle literature and culture, and in 2017, he undertook a six-month research project on representations of brain surgery in Victorian fiction, with a grant from the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund. Read More Read Less