The Great God Pan: A Tale of the Unseen World
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A surgeon performs a small operation on a young woman's brain so that she may see the god Pan, and years later a series of London gentlemen begin killing themselves. Machen grew up among the Roman ruins of Gwent and never wrote about anything else, really; this novella was denounced as degenerate in 1894 and has been quietly feeding horror ever since — Stephen King calls it one of the best in the language. Sixty plates of nineteenth-century painting, from David Cox's landscapes to William Shayer's cattle and a House of Commons of 1878, give this tale of the unseen a visible world.
A surgeon performs a small operation on a young woman's brain so that she may see the god Pan, and years later a series of London gentlemen begin killing themselves. Machen grew up among the Roman ruins of Gwent and never wrote about anything else, really; this novella was denounced as degenerate...
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Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was a Welsh writer and journalist who spent much of his career in London. He published supernatural horror tales, most notably The Great God Pan (1894) and the collection The House of Souls (1906).
Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was a Welsh writer and journalist who spent much of his career in London. He published supernatural horror tales, most notably The Great God Pan (1894) and the collection The House of Souls (1906).
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