The Great God Pan & Other Classic Horror Stories
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- 7,99 лв.
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- 7,99 лв.
Publisher Description
"Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen." — H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult — an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A. E. Waite — his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror. Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers. Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g., Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels. Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and the mind.
In "The Great God Pan," Arthur Machen delivers a tense atmospheric story about a string of mysterious suicides. With its suggestive visions of decadent sexuality, the work scandalized Victorian London. This edition also includes "The White People," "The Inmost Light," and "The Shining Pyramid." Taken together, these short stories are considered some of the first works of horror and have inspired generations of subsequent writers and creators.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Editor Worth has assembled a connoisseur's collection of the work of legendary Welsh writer Machen (1863 1947), whose weird fiction frequently features characters who pierce the veil of the ordinary and encounter terrifying mysteries and marvels beyond it. In addition to such established classics as "The Great God Pan," about the unholy offspring spawned by a misguided medical experiment, and "The White People," an account of an innocent young girl's indoctrination into a malignant witch cult, the book's 19 stories include the complete episodic novel "The Three Impostors," whose frame narrative about the clash between materialism and mysticism provide context for the stories usually excerpted from it (notably "Novel of the Black Seal," about an incautious investigator's encounter with a hideous survival from the pagan past). Worth has also harvested a number of sketches from Machen's later collections that are notable for their depictions of ordinary lives touched subtly by the strange. This is a must-have collection of landmark tales of horror.
