Memoirs of Casanova, Volume 3 of 6 - The Eternal Quest (1920) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 21 copie

The Magicians: Occult Stories (1972) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites: 44 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

The Necronomicon: Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre (2021) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

Memoirs of Casanova, Volume 4 of 6 - Adventures in the South (1920) — Traduttore — 18 copie

The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen (2019) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Monster Festival: Classic Tales of the Macabre (1965) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Welsh Short Stories (1937) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Tales of the Occult (1975) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 16 copie

The Ghost's Companion (1975) — Collaboratore — 15 copie

Paha vieras (1996) 15 copie

Uncanny Tales 2 (1974) — Collaboratore — 12 copie

The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery (1928) — Collaboratore — 11 copie

Lovecraftin lähteillä (1887) 10 copie

The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (1936) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt (6 volume set) (The Memoirs of Jaques Casanova, 1-6) (1945) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 9 copie

M Is for Monster: A Modern Bestiary of Classic Monsters (2011) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

The Spoken Word: British Writers, 3-CD Set (British Library - British Library Sound Archive) (2008) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

Shudders (1929) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

When Churchyards Yawn (1963) — Collaboratore — 6 copie

Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974) 6 copie

Kings of Horror — Autore — 5 copie

Pre-Pulitzer Poetry — Introduzione — 5 copie

The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

Faunus : The journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Number 4, Autumn 1999) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

Flotsam Fantasique The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 (2013) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, (Spring 2017 Number Thirty-Five) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

The great weird stories (1977) — Collaboratore — 4 copie

The Unquiet Grave (1964) — Collaboratore — 4 copie

Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, Autumn 2020, number Forty-Two — Collaboratore — 3 copie

Faunus The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen Spring 2020 number forty-one — Collaboratore — 3 copie

The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume Two (1900) — Traduttore — 2 copie

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 11, No. 3, February 1950 (1950) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

150 anni in Giallo (1989) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

The Nightmare Reader (1973) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

The Heptameron or Tales and Novels: Volume One — Traduttore — 2 copie

Shadows from a Veiled Creation: Classic Tales of Supernatural Fiction in the Christian Tradition (2006) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

The Reviewer, Volume IV, Number 4 (July 1924) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Missing From Their Homes — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Avallaunius, Winter 1997, Seventeen : the journal of the Arthur Machen Society (1997) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Tales of the Mysterious and Weird (1947) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Etichette

Antologia (849) Arthur Machen (122) Autobiografia (116) Biografia (125) Ciclo di Cthulhu (62) classici (79) collezione (111) da leggere (777) Dekadens (59) EBook (108) Fantasma (66) Fantasy (649) Francese (54) Gotico (112) Horror (1,586) Howard Phillips Lovecraft (55) kindle (113) Letteratura (228) Letteratura francese (75) Letteratura inglese (62) letto (65) Machen (72) Memorie (83) Mistero (115) Narrativa (1,267) non letto (86) Novecento (56) racconti (956) Romanzo (60) Saggistica (92) Soprannaturale (111) Storia (62) storie (58) storie di fantasmi (110) Tartarus Press (56) Tolkien (55) weird (71) weird fiction (139) XIX secolo (75) XVIII secolo (68)

Traduzione delle etichette attiva

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.

Utenti

Discussioni

Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Happy Children" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Mag 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Inmost Light" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Gennaio 2021)

THE DEEP ONES: "The History of the Young Man with Spectacles" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2020)

Reading Group #21 ('The Great God Pan') in Gothic Literature (Marzo 2018)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Novembre 2014)

THE DEEP ONES: "The Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen in The Weird Tradition (Luglio 2013)

Underworld: Arthur Machen in BBC Radio 4 Listeners (Luglio 2013)

Recensioni

The Great God Pan di Arthur Machen

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.

Segnalato

ritaer | 37 altre recensioni | Mar 4, 2024 |

The Great God Pan di Arthur Machen

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)

Segnalato

alanteder | 37 altre recensioni | Feb 15, 2024 |

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) di Arthur Machen

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.

Segnalato

Vivian_Metzger | 37 altre recensioni | Jan 14, 2024 |

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics S.) di Arthur Machen

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)

Segnalato

tombomp | 37 altre recensioni | Oct 31, 2023 |

Vedi altre recensioni