"Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long."
Welsh author and mystic known for supernatural and weird fiction, including The Great God Pan. His work significantly influenced 20th-century horror and speculative literature. He died in 1947.