The Great God Pan & Other Classic Horror Stories

"Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen." - H.P. LovecraftArthur Machen (1863?1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time.While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult - an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A.E. Waite - his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror.Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers.Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g, Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels.Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and