The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen’s greatest short story, was a sensation when it was first published in Victorian England in 1890.
The critics were divided. His opponents called it indifferent, claiming that it did not give them the slightest shudder or fear, while his supporters felt that the story was so frightening that it should not have been written.
In our time, Stephen King, the master of horror fiction, described it as the greatest horror story ever written in the English language.
The volume contains a representative selection of Arthur Machen’s other horror stories, such as “The Bowmen”, which gave birth to the famous legend of the Angels of Mons during the battle of the same name in World War I, or “The Shining Pyramid”, one of J.L. Borges’ favorite fantasy stories.
