The Great God Pan

THE GREAT GOD PAN Detail of 'I lock my door upon myself', Fernand Khnopff, 1891 “Villiers, that woman, if I can call her woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and I listened to her as she......more

Great God Pan - Here's a crisp horror tale that right up until the end had me going, "Okay, that's interesting and all, but if you're never going to 'show the monster' then I really can't picture what's going on. In the last two pages, you finally get the big reveal which redeems the story - mostly.......more

Yeah. Not all that great. Machen does a wonderful job of not telling you the unspeakable horrors. It might be a little perverse that I really want to know what's going on. I'm left having to decide for myself. Geeez, thanks Machen. You're the best!......more

The rating is actually an average -- five stars for The Great God Pan and three for The Hill of Dreams. I can see how the latter inspired the style of Clark Ashton Smith and the early Lovecraft, and I don't mean that in a good way. The book is bloated by about two-thirds by the extended passages of L......more

Really loved the Great God Pan, but I feel like the Hill of Dreams was a little too slow. Definitely worth checking out, though!......more