The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

by Arthur Machen

Book Overview

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...

Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body of tales of occult horror, spiritual and physical corruption, and malignant survivals from the primeval past which horrified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198813163
• ISBN13: 9780198813163
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

the horror that influenced Lovecraft!

There are dark and unknown things that dwell in the primal forests before man came to discover them. Great for Horror and Fantasy lovers, Machen has excellent prose and a very gifted story teller. Favourites "Great God Pan" and the Three Imposters.