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''I will not read it; I should never sleep again''

A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen''s weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as ''one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language''.

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The Great God Pan

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    A Paperback / softback by Arthur Machen

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 7 June 2018
      ISBN-13 9780241341124
      978-0241341124
      ISBN-10 0241341124
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      Fiction Horror & Ghost Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''I will not read it; I should never sleep again''

      A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen''s weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as ''one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language''.

      The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers'' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

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