Is it fake-news? A First World War fake-news story? The Angels of Mons seem to have been conjured up from Arthur Machen's trench warfare short-story The Bowmen. In his introduction to this collection of four short stories Machen wonders how his fictional work could have become such a fantastical and widely believed legend...

• Cover
• Publisher’s Introduction
• Frontspiece
• Introduction
• The Bowmen
• The Soldiers’ Rest
• The Monstrance
• The Dazzling Light
• The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts
• Postscript