Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Horror

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In Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft praised the story Great God Pan, saying: No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds ; he added that the sensitive reader reaches the end with an appreciative shudder. Arthur Machen had a substantial career as a novelist and storyteller, but nothing he did in the course of a lifetime made the impact he made in 1890 with _The Great God Pan._ The tale literally caused a furor in London – for it seemed to many readers to bring horror and prurient sexuality together in a way that echoed their moment, foreshadowing the decadence of our own.