THE GREAT GOD PAN - THE EXPERIMENT
'..."I AM glad you came, Clarke ; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time."
"I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now. But have you no misgivings, Ra}anond ? Is it absolutely safe?"
The two men were slowly pacing the terrace in front of Dr. Raymond's house. The sun still hung above the western mountain-line, but it shone with a dull red glow that cast no shadows, and all the air was quiet; a sweet breath came from the great wood on the hillside above, and with it, at intervals, the soft murmuring call of the wild doves. Below, in the long lovely valley, the river wound in and out between the lonely hills, and, as the sun hovered and vanished into the west, a faint mist, pure white, began to rise from the banks. Dr. Raymcjnd turned sharply to his friend..'
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CONTENTS; THE GREAT GOD PAN - THE EXPERIMENT; MR CLARKE'S MEMOIRS ; THE CITY OF RESURRECTIONS ; THE DISCOVERY IN PAUL STREET; THE LETTER OF ADVICE; THE SUICIDES; THE ENCOUNTER IN SOHO; THE FRAGMENTS; THE INMOST LIGHT.
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Arthur Machen (1863 1947) was born Arthur Llewellyn Jones in Caerleon in Wales. Moving to London, but living an impoverished existence, Machen eventually found success with his horror novella 'The Great God Pan', and soon after 'The Three Impostors'. Machen firmly established himself as a master storyteller of decadent supernatural horror, publishing several occult and weird tales with memorable plots and a real skill for the esoteric, creating dark and suspenseful atmospheres.
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