{"product_id":"the-great-god-pan-and-other-horror-stories-hardcover","title":"The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Machen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAaron Worth\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomething pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body of tales of occult horror, spiritual and physical corruption, and malignant survivals from the primeval past which horrified and scandalized late-Victorian readers. Machen's \"weird fiction\" has influenced generations of storytellers, from H. P. Lovecraft to Guillermo Del Toro - and it remains no less unsettling today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new collection, which includes the complete novel \u003cem\u003eThe Three Impostors\u003c\/em\u003e as well as such celebrated tales as \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe White People\u003c\/em\u003e, constitutes the most comprehensive critical edition of Machen yet to appear. In addition to the core late-Victorian horror classics, a selection of lesser-known prose poems and later tales helps to present a fuller picture of the development of Machen's weird vision. The edition's introduction and notes contextualize the life and work of this foundational figure in the history of horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArthur Machen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a significant figure in supernatural literature of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His work, which mixes Gothic horror with fin-de-siecle mysticism, has influenced writers and film-makers (notably H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, and Alan Moore). From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaron Worth\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, having previously taught courses in English and American literature at Brandeis University. His book\u003cem\u003e Imperial Media: Colonial and Information Systems in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Ohio State UP in 2014 (reviewed in TLS and widely in scholarly journals; paperback edition in 2016). He has published essays on Victorian literature and culture in leading journals including\u003cem\u003e Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Victorian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as original horror fiction in magazines including \u003cem\u003eCemetery Dance and Aliterate\u003c\/em\u003e. Worth is the author of the entry on Horror Fiction in the recent Blackwell's \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Victorian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52019814957357,"sku":"9780198813163","price":24.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-great-god-pan-and-other-horror-stories-hardcover-3297506.webp?v=1777439828","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-great-god-pan-and-other-horror-stories-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}