THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES by Arthur Machen: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi

THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES by Arthur Machen: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi

We are proud to announce the first title in our ARCANE WISDOM imprint. THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi.

Each one of the Arcane Wisdom titles will be half bound in exotic cloth and French marbled boards, custom end-papers, color frontis piece, sewn in ribbon marker and either signed by the scholar (on classic titles) who contributed to the edition or author that wrote the piece (if living). We plan on producing four titles a year with this imprint.

Here you will find the most significant contribution of Arthur Machen’s classic tales of dark fantasy and horror. With a forward by Caitlin R. Kiernan and an introduction by S.T. Joshi who also contributes, notes and a complete Machen bibliography. This is a must have for the Machen enthusiast and Weird Tales collector.

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen was widely criticized by the press as degenerate and horrific due to its profligate style and sexual content, although since his work has since garnered a reputation as a classic of modern horror.

In Supernatural Horror in Literature H. P. Lovecraft praised the novel, 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.” Lovecraft also noted, however, that “melodrama is undeniably present, and coincidence is stretched to a length which appears absurd upon analysis.”

Contents:

• Introduction by S. T. Joshi
• Forward by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Great God Pan
• The Three Impostors
• Prologue
• Adventure of the Gold Tiberius
• The Encounter of the Pavement
• Novel of the Dark Valley
• Adventure of the Missing Brother
• Novel of the Black Seal
• Incident of the Private Bar
• The Decorative Imagination
• Novel of the Iron Maid
• The Recluse of Bayswater
• Novel of the White Powder
• Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell
• History of the Young Man with Spectacles
• Adventure of the Deserted Residence
• The Shining Pyramid
• The White People
• A Fragment of Life
• The Bowmen
• Appendix 1: Introduction to The Three Impostors (1923)
• Appendix 2: Introduction to The Angels of Mons (1915)
• Notes
• Bibliography