Memoirs of Casanova, Volume 3 of 6 - The Eternal Quest (1920) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 21 Exemplare

British Weird (2020) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare

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

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

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

The Magicians: Occult Stories (1972) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare

Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare

Monster Festival: Classic Tales of the Macabre (1965) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare

The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen (2019) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare

Welsh Short Stories (1937) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare

Tales of the Occult (1975) — Autor, einige Ausgaben — 16 Exemplare

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

Paha vieras (1996) 15 Exemplare

The Ghost's Companion (1975) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare

Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites: 44 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare

Uncanny Tales 2 (1974) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare

The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery (1928) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare

Lovecraftin lähteillä (1887) 10 Exemplare

The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare

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

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt (6 volume set) (The Memoirs of Jaques Casanova, 1-6) (1945) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 9 Exemplare

Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (1935) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare

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

Shudders (1929) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare

More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare

When Churchyards Yawn (1963) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare

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

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

Kings of Horror — Autor — 5 Exemplare

The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare

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

Flotsam Fantasique The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 (2013) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare

The Unquiet Grave (1964) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare

The great weird stories (1977) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare

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

Faunus The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen Spring 2020 number forty-one — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare

Pre-Pulitzer Poetry — Einführung — 2 Exemplare

The nightmare reader (1973) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

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

The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume One — Übersetzer — 2 Exemplare

150 anni in Giallo (1989) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 11, No. 3, February 1950 (1950) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume Two (1900) — Übersetzer — 2 Exemplare

The Reviewer, Volume IV, Number 4 (July 1924) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

Missing From Their Homes — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

Avallaunius, Winter 1997, Seventeen : the journal of the Arthur Machen Society (1997) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: Machen, Arthur
Rechtmäßiger Name: Jones, Arthur Llewellyn
Andere Namen: Machen, Arthur Jones
Geburtstag: 1863-03-03
Todestag: 1947-03-30
Begräbnisort: Saint Mary Churchyard, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: Großbritannien
Land (für Karte): Wales, UK
UK
Geburtsort: Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Sterbeort: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Wohnorte: Llandewi Fach, Monmouthshire, UK
London, England, UK
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Ausbildung: Hereford Cathedral School
Berufe: Novellist
Essayist
Kurzgeschichtenautor
clerk
Lehrer
Schauspieler (Zeige alle 8)
Übersetzer
Journalist
Beziehungen: Warner, Sylvia Townsend (niece)
Greenwood, Edwin (friend)
מאכן, ארתור
Organisationen: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Kurzbiographie: 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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Diskussionen

Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (August 2021)

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

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

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

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

Rezensionen

The Great God Pan von 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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ritaer | 37 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 4, 2024 |

The Great God Pan von 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.… (mehr)

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alanteder | 37 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 15, 2024 |

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) von 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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Vivian_Metzger | 37 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 14, 2024 |

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics S.) von 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.… (mehr)

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tombomp | 37 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 31, 2023 |

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