The Book Depository The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
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Description: The Great God Pan : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780241341124 : : 07 Jun 2018 : A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides. Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as 'one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. The Book Depository The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780241341124
MPN: 9780241341124
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Author: Mr. J. R. A. Wenban
Rating: 5
Review: If you are looking for a horror story that is genuinely creepy, sinister and uncanny then look no further. The Great God Pan is a tale that will stay with you long after you switch out the lights and try to sleep. Penned by the hand of Arthur Machen this proto-Lovecraftian tale (Lovecraft acknowledged his literary debt to the work of Machen) tells of a malevolent elder god, reaching through the ages to the present day, and of the fate of those who would seek out the great god Pan. Machen himself was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and fellow occultist Austin Spare provided illustrations in some editions (though sadly not this one). This biographical side note adds an extra air of believability to the story, and makes it a must for those with a love of the esoteric arts (indeed, I think that this would go perfectly with Somerset Maugham's The Magician). Finally, and perhaps most importantly, IT'S ABSOLUTELY FREE! So what are you waiting for?
Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1
Review: This is a direct copy of the Project Gutenberg version of the book. For anyone who doesn't know, Project Gutenberg is all about providing free open-access to out of copyright texts like The Great God Pan. This Kindle version hasn't even been formatted to fit properly on Kindle screens so it looks terrible and is hard to read. They haven't even bothered to remove the Gutenberg terms of re-distribution at the end which, ironically, request that the paratext added by Gutenberg be removed. This is so so so terrible and lazy. And it's even worse to consider that Amazon is actually charging for it. The story itself is actually pretty interesting and weird so I'd recommend it, just not this version of it. This edition is unreadable.
