The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
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Arthur Machen (author)
"An incoherent nightmare of sex..." That was TheWestminster Gazette's description of Arthur Machen's first book, TheGreat God Pan, upon its publication in 1894.An unwittingly complimentary description for one of the greatest worksof weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with...
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"An incoherent nightmare of sex..." That was TheWestminster Gazette's description of Arthur Machen's first book, TheGreat God Pan, upon its publication in 1894.An unwittingly complimentary description for one of the greatest worksof weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with hissingular eye for the bizarre and macabre the tale of a young girlcursed by her unnatural parentage to become a creature ofshape-shifting polysexual demi-human evil. Illustrated by AustinOsman Spare.
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ASIN: B002BH3OVW
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 ...
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