The Great God Pan: With 12 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio File

Clarke agrees, somewhat unwillingly, to bear witness to a strange experiment performed by his friend, Dr. Raymond. The ultimate goal of the doctor is to open the mind of man so that he may experience the spiritual world, an experience he calls "seeing the great god Pan". He performs the experiment, which involves minor brain surgery, on a young woman named Mary. She awakens from the operation awed and terrified but quickly becomes "a hopeless idiot".

On publication, it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen’s story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.

The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best horror story in the English language"

Highlights of this edition are:

12 illustrations and photos.
A free web link to the full-length audio recording of the book – to either listen to online, or download.
It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your kobo reader.
An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the kobo “go to” feature.
Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with kobo’s Text-to-Speech features.
Plus, about the Author section.
127 pages (in the kobo format) for a very low price.

This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1894.