The Great God Pan, The Shining Pyramid and The White People

Arthur Machen

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781910409466
• Print ISBN:
  9781906998165

An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong. She has seen the great god Pan and will die giving birth to a daughter.Twenty years later feted society hostess Helen Vaughan becomes the source of much fevered speculation. Many men are infatuated with her beauty, but great beauty has a price, sometimes you have to pay with the only thing you have left.The Great God Panwas a sensation when first published in 1894. Its author, Arthur Machen, was a struggling unknown writer living in London. He had translated Casanova's memoirs and was living on a small inheritance. He immediately became one of the most talked-about writers of the last years of the nineteenth century, while the publication marked the start of his ongoing influence on modern fantasy and horror.Machen's dark imaginings of the reality behind ancient beliefs feature again in the acclaimed, mesmerising short story 'The White People' and the curious tale 'The Shining Pyramid', also in this volume.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title Page
• About Arthur Machen
• Foreword: Rending the Veil
• THE GREAT GOD PAN
• I. The Experiment
• II. Mr Clarke’s Memoirs
• III. The City of Resurrections
• IV. The Discovery in Paul Street
• V. The Letter of Advice
• VI. The Suicides
• VII. The Encounter in Soho
• VIII. The Fragments
• THE SHINING PYRAMID
• I. The Arrowhead Character
• II. The Eyes on the Wall
• III. The Search for the Bowl
• IV. The Secret of the Pyramid
• V. The Little People
• THE WHITE PEOPLE
• Prologue
• The Green Book
• Epilogue
• Notes on the text 1
• Notes on the text 2
• Foreword by Ramsey Campbell
• The Friends of Arthur Machen
• Library of Wales
• Copyright