A review by sistermagpie
The Terror by Arthur Machen

4.0

This was a fun story about mysterious goings-on in the English countryside during WWI. The Terror is explained (to an extent) in the end, but the atmosphere really comes from strange things going on here and there that don't quite seem to fit together: a glowing tree, a strange, mournful scream in the night, people jumping off cliffs, people falling down dead, explosions, shipwrecks. It's so nebulous that people stop talking about it and just live with uneasiness. Though of course when they do talk about it they assume it's some dastardly German plot.

It's tightly written and has some really effective set pieces too.