A forbidden experiment. A hidden terror. A presence that changes everything it touches. The Great God Pan is a landmark work of supernatural fiction by Arthur Machen, widely regarded as one of the most influential horror novellas in English literature. The story begins with a scientific experiment intended to open the human mind to a higher reality. However, the consequences of this act extend far beyond what is expected, unleashing a chain of disturbing events marked by mystery, psycholog...

A captivating continuation of classic ghostly fiction filled with mystery and suspense. This volume presents another collection of unforgettable supernatural tales, featuring haunted places, mysterious apparitions, and eerie encounters that blur the line between reality and the unknown. Written by Various Authors, this anthology offers timeless thrills for lovers of supernatural literature.

The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: "Haunted, you said?" "Yes, haunted. Don't you remember, when I saw you three years ago, you told me about your place in the west wi...

The White People by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: 'Sorcery and sanctity,' said Ambrose, 'these are the only realities. Each is an ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life.' Cotgrave ...

The Bowmen by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. But ...

The Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: I must now give you some fuller particulars of my history. I am the daughter of a civil engineer, Steven Lally by name, who...

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: "I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time." "I was able to make arrangements for a few d...

Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: My name is Leicester; my father. Major General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago ...

Dark visions, eerie encounters, and the lingering presence of the unknown. In The Book of Shadows Vol. 2, a distinguished group of writers—including Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, William Fryer Harvey, Masterpiece Everywhere, and Hugh Walpole—come together in a chilling continuation of supernatural storytelling. This volume gathers haunting tales where the boundaries between reality and the unseen begin to fade....

A solitary, dreaming boy is sent to a celebrated boarding school that worships games, conformity, and worldly success. He withers under its cruelties and smug pieties, sustained only by memories of a lost home and by glimpses of a radiance the people around him cannot see.As he grows, an inheritance reaches him out of the first dim centuries of British Christianity: the rumour of the Holy Grail, and a faith older and stranger than anything taught in chapel. It draws him out of ordi...

Ambrose Meyrick has high expectations of the world, and is disappointed in the mundane factory town around him. He finds that others fail to see or even try to appreciate what he thinks is beautiful and excellent, but he gets along by pretending to conform, while the English public school tries to beat any individualism or imagination out of him.While Ambrose has trouble meeting the school's expectations, he reaches back in his memory to a time with his father and their visit to an...

Two idlers in London are sauntering in the streets when they pick up a coin dropped by a fleeing man. They keep meeting three persons, each time in a different disguise, who recount lurid tales. They seem to be looking for a spectacled man who regrets working with them, and has run away with a valuable coin...This novel is a Gothic horror classic, and takes the form of an episodic novel, with each chapter containing a story recounted by one of the three impostors. It contains "Nove...