Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 1: Great God Pan, White Powder, Inmost Light, Black Seal

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Here's a blog posting on "The Great God Pan" that might be of interest.

Guest Post: The Presence in the Wood: Machen’s “Great God Pan” and Ovid’s Festivals by Dale Nelson

… sheltering under some blackened tree, I would pass the midday hours too dazed to eat or think, and waited for the flailing sun to cross...

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Here's something Machen fits prominently in I'll just toss in for the heck of it.

5 of the scariest horror books ever written

Five of the scariest horror books ever written. From Stephen King to H. P. Lovecraft, these terrifying books will all leave a chill down your spine.

www.monstersandcritics.com

 

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Here is the link to a new column on "The Great God Pan," in which I argue that Machen drew on a once-familiar author who is now little-known, & that the allusion helps us to understand the horror of what happens in the novella's first chapter.

Guest Post: Sacrilege: Machen’s Probable Allusion to Josephus in “The Great God Pan” by Dale Nelson

In an earlier article, I seemed to imply that Christian elements don’t appear in Machen’s “Great God Pan” until the second chapter. S...

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What do you make of the connection between "The Great God Pan" and M. John Harrison's story of the same name, which later became the basis of his novel, The Course of the Heart?

 

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The only thing I remember having read by Harrison was The Pastel City, and that was in 1974!

 

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I did recognize the origin of tegeus-Cromis.

 

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Ah, my secret origin.

 

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Here is another article on "The Great God Pan" (and also "The Inmost Light"):

Guest Post: The Abomination of Desolation in Machen’s “Great God Pan” and “The Inmost Light” by Dale Nelson

In an earlier article, I proposed that part of Clarke’s dream in the first chapter of Machen’s “Great God Pan” recalled the eve of the Jeru...

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And here is still another article by me, on "The Inmost Light" and the short piece called both "Fragments of Paper" and "Psychology":

Guest Post: Machen and the Dark Specter by Dale Nelson

In three recent articles, I’ve argued that Arthur Machen probably drew upon the writings of Ovid, the historian Josephus, and the Bible to ...

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Here is a column by me on Machen's "The Terror." It includes a link to an earlier article also.

Guest Post: The Balm of Consecration in Machen’s “The Terror” by Dale Nelson

“The Terror” (1917) stands out as Arthur Machen’s longest horror story, but its plot is simple. During the cataclysm that was the Great Wa...

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