To anyone interested in supernatural fiction, the work of Welsh master Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is a fundamental starting point. In 2008, Stephen King called Machen's "The Great God Pan" (included here) "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language" in an interview. And H.P. Lovecraft wrote: "Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen, author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the element...

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen is a masterful blend of horror and fantasy that continues to shock and thrill readers to this day. Machen's tale of a scientist's dangerous experiment and its horrifying consequences is a classic in the genre. Experience the eerie world of The Great God Pan. This chilling tale of the supernatural will not fail to capture your imagination and leave you contemplating its profound implications. So why read The Great God Pan? Because it's an essential classic...

Step deeper into the shadows with a haunting collection of classic supernatural fiction. The Book of Shadows Vol. 2 brings together eerie and atmospheric stories by Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, William Fryer Harvey, and Sir Hugh Walpole. This diverse anthology explores the unsettling territory between the familiar and the unknown. Its stories feature ghosts, haunted locations, mysterious occurrences, supernatu...

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...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

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 ...

17 Complete Works of Arthur MachenFar Off ThingsFar off Things The Confessions of A Literary ManMystery In Four VolumesThe Angels of MonsThe Great God PanThe Great ReturnThe Hill of DreamsThe House of SoulsThe Islington MysteryThe Novel of the Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Secret GloryThe Shining PyramidThe TerrorThe Three ImpostorsThe White Peopl...

A gothic masterpiece set in Victorian England: "One of the best horror stories ever written. Perhaps the best in the English language" (Stephen King).When Mr. Clarke agrees to visit his friend Dr. Raymond, he is dubious about the proceedings he is to witness. In pursuit of what Raymond calls "transcendental science," the doctor intends to make a small incision in a woman's brain, allowing her to see past the world of the senses to a reality beyond imagining—a realm ...

Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863.Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there.In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams. He did show liter...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and ...

"I saw the Great God Pan." In a remote house in the Welsh hills, a scientist named Dr. Raymond performs a radical brain surgery on a young woman named Mary. His goal: to open her mind's eye to the spiritual world—to see "the Great God Pan." The experiment succeeds, but at a catastrophic cost. Years later, a series of inexplicable suicides among the London elite begins to trace back to a mysterious, radiant, and terrifying woman named Helen Vaughan. The Dawn of Cosmic Horror: Long before Lo...