The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories: Horror Stories Col...

This collection includes the following horror stories and novellas by Arthur Machen:THE GREAT GOD PANTHE INMOST LIGHTTHE SHINING PYRAMIDADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUSTHE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENTNOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEYADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHERNOVEL OF THE BLACK SEALINCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BARTHE DECORATIVE IMAGINATIONNOVEL OF THE IRON MAIDTHE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATERNOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDERSTRANGE OCCURRENCE IN CLERKENWELLHISTORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECTACLESADVENTURE OF THE DESERTED RESIDENCETHE THREE IMPOSTORSTHE RED HANDTHE PROBLEM OF THE FISH-HOOKSINCIDENT OF THE LETTERSEARCH FOR THE VANISHED HEAVENTHE ARTIST OF THE PAVEMENTSTORY OF THE TREASURE-HOUSETHE HILL OF DREAMSTHE WHITE PEOPLETHE SECRET GLORYTHE ANGELS OF MONSTHE BOWMENTHE SOLDIERS’ RESTTHE MONSTRANCETHE DAZZLING LIGHTTHE TERROR

About the Author

Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural literature of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His work, which mixes Gothic horror with fin-de-siecle mysticism, has influenced writers and film-makers (notably H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, and Alan Moore). From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, having previously taught courses in English and American literature at Brandeis University. His book Imperial Media: Colonial and Information Systems in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 was published by Ohio State UP in 2014 (reviewed in TLS and widely in scholarly journals; paperback edition in 2016). He has published essays on Victorian literature and culture in leading journals including Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Poetry, as well as original horror fiction in magazines including Cemetery Dance and Aliterate. Worth is the author of the entry on Horror Fiction in the recent Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015).

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