The Great God Pan

First published in 1894 and denounced by scandalized reviewers, Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan remains one of the most quietly terrifying works in English supernatural fiction. When the ambitious Dr. Raymond performs a daring experiment to lift the veil between the seen and unseen worlds, his patient glimpses something ancient and inhuman—and from that moment, a shadow falls across a generation. Years later, a beautiful and enigmatic woman drifts through London society, leaving ruin and inexplicable death in her wake, until a small circle of investigators begins to trace the horror back to its source. This edition presents the complete, unabridged original text, faithfully reproduced, together with a new introduction and reader's notes that illuminate Machen's life, his Welsh roots, and the decadent fin-de-siècle world that shaped him. Eerie, elegant, and unforgettable, it is a foundational text of modern horror. Part of The Founding Texts Library.