Download or read book The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories written by Arthur Machen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction and which helps to illuminate Machen's place in the literary and cultural milieu of 1890s Britain.
Download or read book THE GREAT GOD PAN written by ARTHUR MACHEN and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Machen 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language."He is also well known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
Download or read book The Great God Pan Illustrated written by Arthur Machen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890. Machen later extended The Great God Pan and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan. At the end, the heroes confront Helen and force her to kill herself. She undergoes a series of supernatural transformations before dying and she is revealed to be the child of Mary and the god Pan.
Download or read book Great God Pan Other Classic Horror Stories written by Arthur Machen and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short works of decadent horror by a pioneer of supernatural fiction include the title story, a tale of mysterious suicides, "The White People," "The Inmost Light," and "The Shining Pyramid."
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan' is a novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. It was first published in the year 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen’s story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. A Classic of Horror. "The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. The title was possibly inspired by the poem "A Musical Instrument" published in 1862 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the first line of every stanza ends "... the great god Pan." Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this, "seeing the great god Pan." After much study of the human mind he devises an experiment which involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakes she is terrified and mentally crippled. Years later, the beautiful but sinister-looking Helen Vaughan is reported to have caused a series of mysterious happenings in a small nameless town. She spends all her days in the woods, scares a boy so much he is hospitalized, and leads to the rape of her best friend Rachel. Helen then moves to the London social scene and marries a man named Herbert. Years later Herbert is found by his former friend Villiers to be a beggar and vagrant. When asked how he has fallen so low, Herbert replies that he has been "corrupted body and soul" by his wife. Helen disappears for some time, supposedly taking part in disturbing orgies somewhere in the Americas. When she returns as Mrs. Beaumont she is followed by a series of suicides. Villiers discovers that she is in fact Helen and goes to confront her. He persuades her to hang herself and she has a very abnormal death, transforming between human and beast before finally dying. Ultimately, it is discovered that Helen is the child of Mary and Pan, who was let in when Raymond opened her mind up to him.
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan is considered one of the greatest ever works of weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with his eye for the bizarre and macabre the tale of a young girl cursed to become a creature of shapeshifting, polysexual evil. Likewise, Xelucha is a most grotesque, deliberate and delirious evocation of the sepulchral horrors of Poe. This double edition features the two key works of British decadent horror, and includes a set of rare automatic drawings by the occult artist Austin Spare and a short introduction to Machen by H P Lovecraft.
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Pot" is a novel written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and expanded it in 1894 for publication (and another story, Inmost Light) at the time of publication. Due to its decadent style and pornographic content, it has been widely condemned by the media as depraved and horrible. Though it has since earned a reputation as a horror classic, Mahen's story is just one of them. Many people at that time regarded Pan as a useful symbol of pagan nature and power. The title is taken from the poem "Musical Instruments" published by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1862, and the first line of each section ends with "... the Great Pan. (Less)
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.
Download or read book The Great God Pan and the Other Stories written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great god pan and the other stories is a novella and short stories collection by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.
Download or read book The Great God Pan written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this, "seeing the great god Pan." After much study of the human mind he devises an experiment which involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakes she is terrified and mentally crippled. Years later, the beautiful but sinister-looking Helen Vaughan is reported to have caused a series of mysterious happenings in a small nameless town. She spends all her days in the woods, scares a boy so much he is hospitalized, and leads to the rape of her best friend Rachel. Helen then moves to the London social scene and marries a man named Herbert. Years later Herbert is found by his former friend Villiers to be a beggar and vagrant. When asked how he has fallen so low, Herbert replies that he has been "corrupted body and soul" by his wife. Helen disappears for some time, supposedly taking part in disturbing orgies somewhere in the Americas. When she returns as Mrs. Beaumont she is followed by a series of suicides. Villiers discovers that she is in fact Helen and goes to confront her. He persuades her to hang herself and she has a very abnormal death, transforming between human and beast before finally dying. Ultimately, it is discovered that Helen is the child of Mary and Pan, who was let in when Raymond opened her mind up to him.
Download or read book The Great God Pan Large Print Edition written by Arthur Machen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented for your enjoyment in easy-to-read 16 point type is the Arthur Machen classic horror novella, The Great God Pan. This tale influenced writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King. Grab it, read it, but keep the lights on.
Download or read book The Great God Pan Annotated written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The great God Pan is the first novel by Arthur Machen. It was published in 1894 and revised four years later. Almost immediately, although not unexpectedly, Arthur Machen scaled the small Olympus of horror writers, although this day was not without controversy. The great God Pan was hated, despised by critics, and finally denounced as a brutal, disgusting book, due to its decadent style and the strange sexuality that emerges from its pages. Naturally, the public did not accept this critical indoctrination, and the novel continued to grow among readers. In The Great God Pan, a strange operation to the brain of a young woman named Mary brings to this world the vision of a hidden world for most mortals.He states that the Great Bread has not died, and that the forces of evil, in the magical sense of the word, constantly wait for some of us to take them to the other side of the world. The true nature of evil.
Download or read book Pan written by Paul Robichaud and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous—and culturally immortal—god Pan, now in paperback. Pan—he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film, and music, the god Pan has long fascinated and terrified the western imagination. “Panic” is the name given to the peculiar feeling we experience in his presence. Still, the ways in which Pan has been imagined have varied wildly—fitting for a god whose very name the ancients confused with the Greek word meaning “all.” Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; sometimes, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics. And although ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence, and countless others. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance.
Download or read book The Great God Pan Illustrated written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. The title was taken from the poem "A Musical Instrument" published in 1862 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the first line of every stanza ends "... the great god Pan.
Download or read book The Great God Pan and the Angels of Mons written by Arthur Machen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classics in speculative fiction, Arthur Machen's most famous stories are journeys through fear, madness, and the furthest regions of the unknown. A woman is rendered catatonic after a doctor's botched attempt at brain surgery. The surgery, it seems, has opened the woman to a forbidden fold in existence, a place not meant for human eyes, a place where "The Great God Pan" dwells. Years later, men of good position begin committing suicide in the most heinous ways, and for no apparent reason. But behind this trail of bodies is a mysterious woman. What is her connection to the suicides? And even more disturbing, what secrets does she share with the catatonic victim of a horrid medical experiment, a devastated woman who was shown the horrors of The Great God Pan? Also contains The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War. --Part of the BROKEN GROUND series of novellas-- The Broken Ground project is a series of classic novellas that have influenced, revolutionized, or perfected the art of storytelling. These groundbreaking stories forced the boundaries and formed the future of literature, sometimes creating entire styles and genres in the process. With the idea that such works should be studied so that foundations can be understood, Broken Ground is dedicated to presenting these short-but-powerful novellas in a quality - yet affordable - package worthy of the words they contain.
Download or read book THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations written by ARTHUR MACHEN and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Imposters is a strange little book, a narrative about a secret society's efforts to retrieve a Roman coin ("The Gold Tiberius"), but this "novel" appears to be little more than a convenient device for telling a series of marvelous, horrific tales. Two of these tales--"The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder"--are first-class works of imaginative fiction, and the entire book itself is entrancing, reminiscent of Stevenson's New Arabian Nights in its descriptions of London--conveyed in musical, Swinburneian prose--make of this nineteenth century metropolis something as exotic and fantastic as the Baghdad of Haroun al-Rashid. In addition, this collection contains not only two short stories but also the novella "The Great God Pan," one of the acknowledged classics of the weird tale. Its Chinese box structure--the horror revealed in fragments, in various voices, with lacunae which must be supplied by the reader--makes the narrative all the more compelling and terrifying in its obliqueness. (Lovecraft used this structure as his model for "The Call of Cthulhu.") "The Great God Pan" has an interesting plot as well, in that it is an inversion of the Ripper murders which occurred only a few years before. Instead of lower-class women murdered in the slums by an unknown male slasher, we have wealthy young men committing suicide in the most fashionable sections of London--and this time a mysterious woman seems to be involved.
