Arthur Machen

First published in 1894, this is Machen's first, and greatest, opus of Decadence and Horror. With his singular eye for the bizarre and macabre, Machen unfurls this tale of a young girl cursed by her supernatural parentage to become a creature of shape-shifting, polysexual, demi-human of evil. A classic of fin-de-siecle erotic malevolence.

The Great God Pan

Guillermo del Toro

S. T. Joshi

Evil is never dormant - it gestates. - from the Foreword by Guillermo del Toro Actor, journalist, devotee of Celtic Christianity and the Holy Grail legend, Welshman Arthur Machen is considered a seminal writer of weird fiction, a master of whose work has drawn comparisons to H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. This exceptional collection offers the perfect introduction to his vision and style. With the title story, an exercise in the bizarre that leaves the reader disoriented virtually from the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside down. '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 elements of hidden horror and brooding fright attain an almost incomparable substance and realistic acuteness.' - H.P. Lovecraft Edited with an Introduction and Notes by S. T. JOSHI

The White People and Other Weird Stories

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.

The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow- sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as 'one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language'. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Great God Pan The

Lucian Taylor is damned when he becomes a writer, and when he moves to Londonhe becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark creature within him.

The Hill of Dreams

A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses.

The White People

'O Grande Deus Pã' é uma história de horror e imaginação que chocou a Londres vitoriana com suas imagens sexuais e pagãs. Além disso, esta história inspirou o filme 'O Labirinto de Fauno'.

O grande deus pã

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), al igual que su contemporáneo Lord Dunsany, fue un obstinado soñador que creó una de las obras más líricas y exquisitas que ha dado hasta la fecha el denominado género de terror. Tutor, traductor, corrector de pruebas, catalogador de libros raros, actor de teatro y sobre todo periodista, Machen trasladó al papel sus arrebatados y melancólicos sueños con esa rara intensidad y soledad propias de la poesía, tratando de desvelar los enigmas que se ocultan más allá de la existencia y fuera del tiempo y logrando que la belleza y el horror suenen en sus relatos al unísono. A diferencia de Le Fanu o M.R. James, Machen, inspirado por su origen celta, no escribió sobre fantasmas sino más bien sobre fuerzas elementales, maleficios que sobreviven o poderes malignos invocados por el folklore y los cuentos de hadas, como la malévola «gente pequeña», esa enigmática y horrible raza pre-céltica, negra y achaparrada, forzada a vivir en las entrañas de la tierra, donde todavía practica sus infames ritos sacrificiales. El presente volumen recoge cuatro extensos relatos (El gran dios Pan, La luz interior, La novela del Sello Negro y La novela del polvo blanco), que tanto influyeron en el maestro del horror sobrenatural, H.P. Lovecraft.

Y otros relatos de terror

El gran dios Pan

Yüce Tanri Pan

Volume 3 of The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

The Terror & Other Tales

Various

 The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 1 ( Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series)

The Three Imposters and Other Stories

The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen. The novel incorporates several inset weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three imposters of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-retailing the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: "the young man with spectacles".

The Three Imposters

Robert E. Howard

Lafcadio Hearn

H. P. Lovecraft

Robert W. Chambers

More than 40 terrifying tales from the masters of cosmic horror. Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this volume. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares. This collection includes the brilliant and horrifying tales from: * H. P. Lovecraft * Robert E. Howard * Arthur Machen * Lafcadio Hearn * Robert W. Chambers

Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre

The Necronomicon

Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The Three Impostors" in its complete form, including the rarely seen sections "The Decorative Imagination" and "The Novel of the Iron Maid." Rounding out the first volume are "The Great God Pan, " "The Inmost Light, " and "The Shining Pyramid."

Vol. 1 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

The Three Impostors and Other Stories

Il gran dio Pan e altre storie soprannaturali

The Inmost Light

The Great God Pan is a novella 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.

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