The Great God Pan [Annotated]
The Great God Pan, an early work of Machen, tells the chilling tale of an immoral experiment performed on an innocent girl who is alone in the world. This experiment unlifts the veil to her with horrifying consequences. This is one of Machen’s first works and is influential to many prominent...
show more
The Great God Pan, an early work of Machen, tells the chilling tale of an immoral experiment performed on an innocent girl who is alone in the world. This experiment unlifts the veil to her with horrifying consequences. This is one of Machen’s first works and is influential to many prominent writers in the genre to this day.
show less
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009YZWPT6
Pages no: 63
Edition language: English
Please note I have this story 3.5 stars and rounded it to 4 stars on Goodreads. I initially picked this to read for my classic horror square, but read something else instead. I still think this is a good short story to read that is not too gory for the non-horror reader group.Written in 1894, "The G...
First, I’d better come clean: I read The Great God Pan because Stephen King told me to. King has never been shy about name-dropping his influences, and this particular story is one of his biggest, apparently. If I ever find and decide to re-read my copy of Danse Macabre, I’ll probably need to get “I...
8 interlinked stories tell the tale of a mysterious woman and her involvement in a rash of suicides in Victorian London.This is my first read by Machen and I really enjoyed the structure he used to tell this story of pagan horror. Each chapter reveals a small portion of the story, the different stra...
Very well done, nice proto-Lovecraftian plot, tidily wrapped up at the end, though I don't relate well to the epistolary style of the novel, where much(including, annoyingly, the ending) is told in past-tense, undercutting the suspense. Still worth reading, though, and I've always wanted to read it.
Picking up the old horror classics and working my way through them, I hope to find some real gems that do better than contemporaries. Of course, fiction is fiction and it always changes with time; all styles die. It had the feel of all good ghost stories, without actually being a ghost story. I had ...