Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen was an author. At some point before the 21st century Arthur met Captain Jack Harkness, who later said that he was an "interesting guy" and once coined the phrase “always a godfather and never a god”. Aleister Crowley was said to have been a fan of Arthur Machen's work.
By 2009, there was a council estate named after the author, with each of its individual buildings being named after his literary works. (PROSE: The Wrong Hands [+]Loading...["The Wrong Hands (short story)"])
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An unproduced novel outlined by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier for Virgin Publishing's New Adventures would have featured "the real-life Order of the Golden Dawn secret society, which Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen, etc., belonged to". When the Lofficiers and Philip Segal adapted this outline into Part 1 of the mooted two-parter The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (unproduced TV story)"] in 1994, the Order of the Golden Dawn was replaced with the fictional Adepts of Eleusis, but the Adepts' "magus" was named Sir Alastair Machen as an apparent nod to this earlier idea.
