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Arthur Machen (1863–1947)

Autore di The Great God Pan

211+ opere 5,675 membri 115 recensioni 55 preferito

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Opere di Arthur Machen

The Great God Pan (1894) 842 copie
I tre impostori (1895) 401 copie
The Hill of Dreams (1907) 367 copie
The House of Souls (1922) 160 copie
The Terror (1917) 112 copie
The Secret Glory (1922) 84 copie
La piramide di fuoco (1923) — Autore — 79 copie
The White People (1987) 65 copie
Hieroglyphics (1902) 59 copie
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
Far Off Things (1922) 57 copie
Ritual and Other Stories (1992) 57 copie
The Green Round (1933) 54 copie
Holy Terrors (1946) 44 copie
A Fragment of Life (1987) 39 copie
Ornaments in Jade (1997) 38 copie
Dreads and Drolls (1926) 36 copie
Things Near and Far (1923) 35 copie
The Great Return (1915) 31 copie
Die leuchtende Pyramide (1987) 30 copie
N (2010) 27 copie
The Red Hand (1895) 23 copie
The Inmost Light (1894) 21 copie
The Chronicle of Clemendy (1923) 21 copie
Selected Letters (1988) 18 copie
The Cosy Room (1936) 18 copie
The Canning Wonder (1925) 17 copie
The Glorious Mystery (1924) 14 copie
The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales (1946) — Autore — 13 copie
The anatomy of tobacco (1926) 13 copie
Cuentos (1987) 12 copie
The Children of the Pool (1936) 12 copie
Occult Territory: An Arthur Machen Gazetteer (2021) — Autore — 11 copie
Eleusinia 9 copie
Furcht und Schrecken (1993) 9 copie
Der große Pan: Erzählungen (1994) — Autore — 7 copie
Out Of The Earth (2009) 5 copie
The Bowmen (1915) 5 copie
De grote god Pan : griezelverhalen (1970) — Autore — 4 copie
Notes and Queries (1926) 4 copie
Precious Balms (1924) 4 copie
Levbavi Oculos (2019) 2 copie
Mystisiä kertomuksia (2021) 2 copie
Change (2010) 2 copie
A New Christmas Carol (2016) 2 copie
Rus in Urbe and Others (1992) 2 copie
Short Fiction 2 copie
Oltre la soglia (1993) 1 copia
Il terrore (2022) 1 copia
Hrůza 1 copia
Sad Avallona 1 copia

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The Omnibus of Crime (1929) — Collaboratore — 208 copie
The Hastur Cycle (1993) — Autore — 208 copie
The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends (1998) — Collaboratore — 195 copie
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The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales (2018) — Collaboratore — 178 copie
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Collaboratore — 166 copie
My Favorite Horror Story (2007) — Collaboratore — 140 copie
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Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror (2014) — Collaboratore — 127 copie
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Foundations of Fear (1992) — Collaboratore — 97 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Collaboratore — 94 copie
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (2020) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Storia della mia fuga dai Piombi (1988) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni90 copie
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H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales (2005) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time (2002) — Collaboratore — 77 copie
The Horror Hall of Fame (1991) — Collaboratore — 76 copie
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
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The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1991) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
The World's Greatest Horror Stories (1994) — Collaboratore — 63 copie
Visitants (2010) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 (2011) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (2020) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
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The Black Veil and Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths (2007) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories (2020) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
The Deadly Dowager (1934) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni46 copie
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The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories (2010) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny (1926) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
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The Garden of Hermetic Dreams (2004) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (1928) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
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More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Shudders (1929) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
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The great weird stories (1977) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Jones, Arthur Llewellyn
Altri nomi
Jones-Machen, Arthur Llewellyn
Data di nascita
1863-03-03
Data di morte
1947-12-15
Luogo di sepoltura
Saint Mary Churchyard, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Nazione (per mappa)
Wales, UK
UK
Luogo di nascita
Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Luogo di morte
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Luogo di residenza
Llandewi Fach, Monmouthshire, UK
London, England, UK
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Istruzione
Hereford Cathedral School
Attività lavorative
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
clerk
teacher
actor (mostra tutto 8)
translator
journalist
Relazioni
Warner, Sylvia Townsend (niece)
Greenwood, Edwin (friend)
מאכן, ארתור
Organizzazioni
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Breve biografia
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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THE DEEP ONES: "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Novembre 2014)
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Recensioni

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 altre recensioni | Mar 4, 2024 |
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.
… (altro)
 
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alanteder | 37 altre recensioni | Feb 15, 2024 |
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 altre recensioni | Jan 14, 2024 |
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.… (altro)
 
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tombomp | 37 altre recensioni | Oct 31, 2023 |

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