The Great God Pan

The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. The story begins a young woman undergoing an experiment that allows her to see the supernatural world, followed by a series of mysterious events and deaths. Upon publication, The Great God Pan was highly controversial due to its horrific content, but it eventually came to be respected as a ground-breaking work in the horror genre, combining aspects of Gothic with science fiction.