The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen, 1890
A laboratory experiment, a beautiful stranger and a London street where the ordinary world begins to thin.
Arthur Machen
1863–1947
Machen’s novella was attacked as decadent on publication, yet H. P. Lovecraft later named him among the masters of weird fiction.
Feels like dread, unease and awe.
The moment a familiar path becomes somewhere you have never been.
Clarke tried to conceive the thing again, as he sat by the fire, and again his mind shuddered and shrank back, appalled before the sight of such awful, unspeakable elements enthroned as it were, and triumphant in human flesh. Before him stretched the long dim vista of the green causeway in the forest, as his friend had described it; he saw the swaying leaves and the quivering shadows on the grass, he saw the sunlight and the flowers, and far away, far in the long distance, the two figures moved toward him. One was Rachel, but the other? Books by Arthur Machen
Authors with a similar feel
Read pages from books like this, one at a time
BookFeed is a feed of real passages from real books. It learns what moves you and finds your next book.
Open BookFeedFree, no sign-up.