The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories -- Arthur Machen - Hardcover
Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/01/2018
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780198813163
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2018
Booklist 03/01/2018 pg. 32
About the Author
Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural literature of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His work, which mixes Gothic horror with fin-de-siecle mysticism, has influenced writers and film-makers (notably H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, and Alan Moore). From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice.