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The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen

Start date: December 1, 2025

Finish date: December 31, 2025

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May 04, 2013 Antonomasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, horror, 19th-century, aesthetes-decadents-and-romantics, ebooks-kindle

[My 100th Goodreads review, and more of an actual review than many of them.]

What a curious beast. As it was a free Kindle book, I hadn't read up on this specific story and expected numinous pagan ramblings in the English landscape, a sort of Rewards and Fairies for grown-ups. Certainly there are some beautiful descriptions, but opening as it does with dastardly experimental brain-surgery on a nubile 17-year-old ward (backed by a curiously modern theory echoing the idea of the "god module") - and ...more

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Oct 23, 2020 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing

Stephen King has called The Great God Pan a great horror novella, and I would agree. It begins with a scientific experiment, an experiment to peer into the hidden fabric of our reality, to see "the Great God Pan". The scientist cuts into the brain of a young woman and she does see into the matrix that makes up our world, but then that experiment goes horribly wrong. The woman loses her mind and is a grinning shell of a person.
The story continues years later, a small girl of twelve is sent to liv ...more

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