Arthur Machen 4 hr 29 min read

A fragment of life, the white people, the great god Pan, the inmost light, four tales in which the placid surface of the everyday cracks open onto ancient, unspeakable powers.

Arthur Machen's 1922 collection gathers his supreme masterpieces of cosmic and occult horror. Atmospheric, profound, hugely influential. Read it for the towering terrors of a master, 'The Great God Pan' and 'The White People' among them, visionary tales of hidden evil that shaped Lovecraft and all of modern weird fiction.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).