The Great God Pan (Library of Wales) - Softcover

Machen, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906998167 ISBN 13: 9781906998165

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2010

Synopsis

A sensation when first published in 1894, this frightening story involves evil scientists and the women that become monsters at their hands. An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong—she has witnessed the God Pan and will die giving birth to a daughter, Helen Vaughan. Twenty years later Helen becomes the source of much fevered speculation when she is feted as a society hostess of great charm. Many men are infatuated with her beauty, but great beauty has a price. Linking horror with prurient sexuality, this classic of horror sheds light on late Victorian misogyny and the public’s interest in theories of evolutionary degeneration.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Machen was an influential horror, supernatural, and fantasy writer whose works included The Green Round, Hill of Dreams, and The Three Impostors.

Review:

"Machen is a genius . . . but I don’t take him to bed with me."  —Arthur Conan Doyle

"For ability to create an atmosphere of nameless terror I can think of no author living or dead who comes near to him."  —Jerome K. Jerome, author, Three Men in a Boat

"Arthur Machen’s stories . . .  are inspired by a genuine emotion. He hardly ever wrote merely to frighten others; he did so because he knew he lived in an alien world."  —Jorge Luis Borges

About this edition

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906998167
• ISBN 13: 9781906998165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120