The Great God Pan, The Shining Pyramid, The White People by Arthur Machen

He immediately became one of the most talked-about writers of the last years of the nineteenth century, while the publication marked the start of his ongoing influence on modern fantasy and horror. He had translated Casanova's memoirs and was living on a small inheritance. Its author, Arthur Machen, was a struggling unknown writer living in London.

The Great God Pan was a sensation when first published in 1894. Many men are infatuated with her beauty, but great beauty has a price, sometimes you have to pay with the only thing you have left. Twenty years later feted society hostess Helen Vaughan becomes the source of much fevered speculation. She has seen the great god Pan and will die giving birth to a daughter.

This edition also includes 'The White People,' 'The Inmost Light,' and 'The Shining Pyramid.' Taken together, these short stories are considered some of the first works of horror and have inspired generations of subsequent writers and creators.An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong. With its suggestive visions of decadent sexuality, the work scandalized Victorian London. In 'The Great God Pan,' Arthur Machen delivers a tense atmospheric story about a string of mysterious suicides. Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and the mind. Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g., Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers. Waite - his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult - an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A. LovecraftĪrthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. 'Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen.' - H.

The Great God Pan, The Shining Pyramid, The White People by Arthur Machen