Memoirs of Casanova, Volume 3 of 6 - The Eternal Quest (1920) — Vertaler, sommige edities; Vertaler, sommige edities; Vertaler, sommige edities — 21 exemplaren

British Weird (2020) — Medewerker — 20 exemplaren

The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren

The Necronomicon: Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre (2021) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren

Memoirs of Casanova, Volume 4 of 6 - Adventures in the South (1920) — Vertaler — 18 exemplaren

The Magicians: Occult Stories (1972) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren

Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren

Monster Festival: Classic Tales of the Macabre (1965) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren

The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen (2019) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren

Welsh Short Stories (1937) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren

Tales of the Occult (1975) — Auteur, sommige edities — 16 exemplaren

Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren

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Uncanny Tales 2 (1974) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren

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Lovecraftin lähteillä (1887) 10 exemplaren

The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren

M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters (2011) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren

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Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (1935) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren

The Spoken Word: British Writers, 3-CD Set (British Library - British Library Sound Archive) (2008) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren

Shudders (1929) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren

More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren

When Churchyards Yawn (1963) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren

Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974) 6 exemplaren

Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, (Spring 2017 Number Thirty-Five) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren

Kings of Horror — Auteur — 5 exemplaren

The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren

Faunus : The journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Number 4, Autumn 1999) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren

Flotsam Fantasique The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 (2013) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren

The Unquiet Grave (1964) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren

The great weird stories (1977) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren

Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, Autumn 2020, number Forty-Two — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren

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Shadows from a Veiled Creation: Classic Tales of Supernatural Fiction in the Christian Tradition (2006) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume One — Vertaler — 2 exemplaren

150 anni in Giallo (1989) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

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The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume Two (1900) — Vertaler — 2 exemplaren

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Officiële naam: Jones, Arthur Llewellyn
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Jones-Machen, Arthur Llewellyn
Geboortedatum: 1863-03-03
Overlijdensdatum: 1947-12-15
Graflocatie: Saint Mary Churchyard, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: UK
Land (voor op de kaart): Wales, UK
UK
Geboorteplaats: Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Plaats van overlijden: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Woonplaatsen: Llandewi Fach, Monmouthshire, UK
London, England, UK
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Opleiding: Hereford Cathedral School
Beroepen: novelist
essayist
short-story writer
clerk
teacher
actor (toon alle 8)
translator
journalist
Relaties: Warner, Sylvia Townsend (niece)
Greenwood, Edwin (friend)
מאכן, ארתור
Organisaties: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Korte biografie: Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.

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Discussies

Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (augustus 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Happy Children" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (mei 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Inmost Light" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (januari 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The History of the Young Man with Spectacles" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (augustus 2020)

Reading Group #21 ('The Great God Pan') in Gothic Literature (maart 2018)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (november 2014)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (juli 2013)

Underworld: Arthur Machen in BBC Radio 4 Listeners (juli 2013)

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The Great God Pan door Arthur Machen

Indescribable horrors are hinted at but never described except in their effects on various unfortunates who come in contact with a woman corrupted by an ambitious and unscrupulous doctor's experiment.

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The Great God Pan door Arthur Machen

Horror in the Mind of the Beholder
Review of the Public Domain Kindle eBook edition (May 16, 2012) excerpted from the John Lane hardcover original (1894*).

The greatest horror tales I ever read is a tie between “The Great God Pan,” by Arthur Machen (novella) and "The Ceremonies," by T.E.D. Klein. - tweeted by Stephen King on February 9, 2024.

While doing research for my review of Stephen King's Holly (2023), I chanced upon the above statement in between the constant stream of King's anti-Trump tweets. Having read neither of the books mentioned, I immediately grabbed a free public domain copy of The Great God Pan. Klein's The Ceremonies (1984) with a rare used paperback listed at $102.55 Cdn. 😮 will have to wait its turn.

You shouldn't expect anything very explicit from this Victorian novella. It primarily consists of the conversations or the recorded letters of various paranormal investigators, doctors, scholars and such. The title villain and its progeny are never directly encountered but are constantly spoken about. The horror of it all is the extent to which your imagination will take you.

The greatest horror for me was actually in the first chapter where a diabolical experiment is performed on a hapless young woman in order for her to "see" into the other world. This "operation" consists of a method which pre-figures lobotomies (which weren't invented until 1935) by 45 years! The resulting spawn is unleashed upon the world until steps are taken to eradicate it.

See title page at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Title_page--The_great_...
Title page from the John Lane 1894 edition with an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Image sourced from Wikipedia.

Footnote
* Goodreads shows 1890 as the year of first publication, but that was only an early version of Chapter 1 which appeared in The Whirlwind magazine. The full novella was not published until 1894 when it was paired with Machen's short story The Inmost Light.

Trivia and Link
The Great God Pan is in the Public Domain and can be read at various online sources such as Project Gutenberg. The Public Domain Kindle eBook is available free at Amazon.… (meer)

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The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) door Arthur Machen

Strange, influential story. You would need to be focused to read this to not miss anything. Stephen King called it as one of the greatest horror stories in English. Has some sexual scenes that must have been very surprising to readers back when this book came out in 1890. I liked it.

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The Great God Pan (Creation Classics S.) door Arthur Machen

A couple of times does that thing where it builds up and then when you think it's going to finally describe something, just cuts out. It's pretty pathetic, although I know a lot of people are cool with that sort of thing. To me it kind of blew the atmosphere. Which is a shame because it IS a very good atmosphere and it's pretty suspenseful. Even with that, though, it was enjoyable and I thought the ending was pretty alright considering it was of that style. Despite myself I was kept in suspense and if you don't mind anti-climaxes like that you'll enjoy this quite a bit I think. Good stuff slightly marred by a bit of poor writing.… (meer)

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