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The Great God Pan

First published: 1894
Pages: 68

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The Experiment
17:48
Mr. Clarke's Memoirs
15:09
The City of Resurrections
16:28
The Discovery in Paul Street
12:47
The Letter of Advice
11:47
The Suicides
17:44
The Encounter in Soho
14:40
The Fragments
13:12

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A surgeon named Raymond cuts into a young woman's brain to let her see the god Pan, and within days the experiment has wrecked her mind. That is the first chapter. The rest of Machen's 1894 novella works like a slow investigation, moving through London drawing rooms and a trail of ruined men while scattered witnesses assemble what became of the child born after that night. Machen's method is suggestion rather than display, and the worst of it happens off the page, in documents the reader is told cannot be reproduced. Critics called it degenerate when it appeared; Lovecraft and, later, Stephen King treated it as a model. It remains a founding text of cosmic horror. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (1863 to 1947) was a Welsh writer whose supernatural stories are landmarks of weird fiction. Working in obscurity for much of his life, he came to be recognised as one of the great masters of horror and the uncanny.