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Narrated by:
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Peter Wickham
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By:
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Arthur Machen
About this listen
Dubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr. Raymond uses her as a test subject for brain surgery aimed at "lifting the veil" of reality, to see the supernatural and the "great god Pan".
The operation is a disaster and leaves the subject lobotomized. Years later, London becomes afflicted with a strange series of male suicides connected to a beautiful but sinister woman named Helen. Just who is she, and what is her connection to Dr. Raymond's failed experiment?
First published in 1890, The Great God Pan influenced many writers of the genre, including the unrivalled master H.P. Lovecraft. It makes perfect listening for a dark and rainy evening.
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narrator is not good
- By Cynthia on 07-24-23
By: Arthur Machen
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Holy Terrors
- Nine Stories
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author known for his works of horror and the fantastic. He is recognized as an influence on modern writers of supernatural fiction. Holy Terrors (published in 1946, a year before his death) is a collection of 14 short stories of which nine are very short and are included in this recording. They are: “The Rose Garden”, “Psychology”, “The Soldier's Rest”, “The Cosy Room”, “The Ceremony”, “Holy Things”, “The Turanians”, “The Happy Children”, and “Munitions of War”.
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Great stories
- By Dean on 02-21-23
By: Arthur Machen
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The Three Imposters
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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The Three Impostors is a series of convoluted horror tales about three individuals who are searching for a "young man with spectacles" who has inadvertently stolen something of great importance to a secret society of which they are members. The story then goes back in time before the opening scene where the three impostors assume various personas and roles, weaving stories about their prey in an effort to attract attention to him and gain the aid of unsuspecting people.
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Best Horror Ever Written
- By Richard Rasmussen on 11-10-12
By: Arthur Machen
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The Three Impostors and Other Weird Tales
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Ian Gordon
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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A collection assembled by HorrorBabble, comprising some of Machen's most highly regarded works.
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A little disappointed.
- By Pan on 07-24-24
By: Arthur Machen
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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classic horror
- By Shantee on 05-04-16
By: Arthur Machen
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The Inmost Light and Other Tales: Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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An influential writer of supernatural fiction, Arthur Machen was born in Wales, in 1863. Many modern writers, such as Stephen King, have cited him as an inspiration. Perhaps most notably, though, was H.P. Lovecraft, who cites Machen as what led him down the road to eventually creating the Cthulhu Mythos. Presented here are two short stories and two novellas: "The Inmost Light", "A Fragment of Life", "The Shining Pyramid", and "The Terror."
By: Arthur Machen
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The Great God Pan
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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On publication, it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its implied sexual content, and the novella hurt Machen's reputation as an author. Beginning in the 1920s, Machen's work was critically re-evaluated and The Great God Pan has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror.
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narrator is not good
- By Cynthia on 07-24-23
By: Arthur Machen
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Holy Terrors
- Nine Stories
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author known for his works of horror and the fantastic. He is recognized as an influence on modern writers of supernatural fiction. Holy Terrors (published in 1946, a year before his death) is a collection of 14 short stories of which nine are very short and are included in this recording. They are: “The Rose Garden”, “Psychology”, “The Soldier's Rest”, “The Cosy Room”, “The Ceremony”, “Holy Things”, “The Turanians”, “The Happy Children”, and “Munitions of War”.
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Great stories
- By Dean on 02-21-23
By: Arthur Machen
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The Three Imposters
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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The Three Impostors is a series of convoluted horror tales about three individuals who are searching for a "young man with spectacles" who has inadvertently stolen something of great importance to a secret society of which they are members. The story then goes back in time before the opening scene where the three impostors assume various personas and roles, weaving stories about their prey in an effort to attract attention to him and gain the aid of unsuspecting people.
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Best Horror Ever Written
- By Richard Rasmussen on 11-10-12
By: Arthur Machen
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Hugh Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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An abandoned house whose horrific past is reenacted for those who dare visit; a terrifying trip down the Danube River; a malevolent half-beast creature who abducts a member of a hunting party; and a tale of paranoia, mental deterioration, and all-consuming feelings of doom: Here are four feverish, spine-tingling tales that will chill the blood and make the flesh creep. The collection includes "The Empty House," "The Willows," "The Listener", and "The Wendigo".
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Worth the Price of Admission
- By Cassandra Morrison on 11-15-17
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The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre is Skyboat Media’s second original compilation of stories by Algernon Blackwood, featuring six of his most unique and macabre stories that contemplate the true meaning of reality and nature of the making of the world.
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Narrators we’re hit or miss
- By Sarah R Robertson on 11-30-24
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Arthur Machen Box Set: The Great God Pan & The Three Impostors
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was the pen name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic. Machen is best known as a writer in the supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction genres.
By: Arthur Machen
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The Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Collection
- 17 Dramas and Supernatural Ghost Stories
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Philip Madoc, Malcolm Hayes, Christopher Neame, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific author of numerous ghost stories and horror tales. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote 14 novels, several children's books, a number of plays, and over 200 short stories. This anthology opens with a selection of stories featuring his most influential character, occult detective Dr John Silence.
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Tales of the Occult
- By: Arthur Machen, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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If you have an appetite for the occult, consider this a feast. All of the authors in this collection have penned tales that deal with the supernatural and the supernormal. These include two novellas, "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen and "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood and 10 short stories.
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Great Selection
- By Jas on 03-08-08
By: Arthur Machen, and others
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The Willows
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Nick Sampson
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
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Slowly building dread.
- By Barks Books on 12-19-16
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Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Volume 2
- By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Amelia B. Edwards, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Stanhope
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Thirteen classic stories of horror and the supernatural by some of the greatest writers in the genre. This compilation includes a mix of well-known classics by authors such as Edith Nesbit, J. Sheridan Le Fanu and M. R. James, alongside several tales by less familiar names who were hugely popular and prolific in their day.
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Love these stories
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-23
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and others
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The Wendigo
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Days from civilisation five men are about to experience something beyond the rational. In the snow slaked wilds where the natives fear to tread, these men search for moose but find something more terrifying and supernatural. With a rush of wind and the smell of feral nature one of their number is whisked away, leaving them wondering: Who might be next?
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Just the meat and potatoes
- By matt kleinlein on 05-06-19
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In a Glass Darkly
- By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, David Horovitch, Jonathan Keeble, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials, and lesbian vampires. In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing. Each story, including the famous "Green Tea" and "Carmilla", is presented as a case from the posthumous papers of Dr. Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical physician who has no doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena - unlike our anxious protagonists....
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Great cast.
- By Diana Van Damme on 09-08-24
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The Great Return
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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I collect snippets from newspapers, special interesting snippets. The unusual, the weird, the unexplained. These things have always interested me. Yet when I found my old hometown was the subject of a sudden rush of strange and inexplicable events, I felt I was being drawn back....
By: Arthur Machen
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The End of the Story
- Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 1
- By: Clark Ashton Smith
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper, Allan Robertson, Joe Knezevich, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work.
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variety is the spice of life
- By Alaskapenny on 12-29-15
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The Horror on the Links
- The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume One
- By: Seabury Quinn
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 25 hrs and 43 mins
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Seabury Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of the pulp magazine Weird Tales' original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey.
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Such Fun !!
- By The Whole Truth on 10-20-17
By: Seabury Quinn
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- Coach of Alva
- 03-15-19
Machen Mellow
I was disappointed when I heard Peter Wickham reading Machen’s male characters in tone of a London clubman but I had to admit that this voice did fit them. Unfortunately two of Machen’s greatest tales are narrated by women and Wickham’s female voices grated. I still enjoyed hearing the tales of the great horror innovator who conjured horrors he was (usually) too Victorian to describe.
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- Gabrielle Knox
- 02-26-19
Yawn
I had high expectations since Stephen King names this book as an inspiration for his work. The stories may be the progenitor for modern horror, but the narration was not distinct and at time tended to drone on in a near monotone voice. I haven’t finished the audio book. This is one rare time it was easier to read the actual book.
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- Gavin Lees
- 06-19-18
Wonderful Performance of Fantastic Tales
Peter Wickham does a marvellous job bringing these weird and fantastic (in both senses of the word) tales to life. I'll always reread these stories with his characteristic "yeeesss..." in my head.
A previous review states that these stories are abridged. That is totally incorrect. I listened along with the original texts and everything is complete.
For anyone unfamiliar with Machen, this is a great overview of his "big hits" but you'll want to go further after this first taste.
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- 11-12-18
Introduction to Arthur Machen
So I had heard about Arthur Machen. Think I heard some of his stuff on BBC radio 4 at some point. Thought to enlarge my taste of his sort of stories on Audible. He is quite the master of a slow burn vague sense of creepiness. More unsettling than sheer stark horror. Read: Psychological, subliminal rather than blatant blood and thrills. Also, the element of Mother Nature - in her darker moods (the trees are turning on you) and fairy folk who live intimately in that milieu - is very bold in his flavor of writing. And does leave you with a keen sense of the time and place in which he lived and wrote. #Dark #Creepy #Absurd #Quirky #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes
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- Lisa Ann Robertson
- 07-04-19
Victorian Mysticism at its Best
Machen's stories captured my imagination with their allusive and elusive subject matter. The nesting and interweaving of stories across the collection is masterful. Wickham's narration communicates an air of wonder and awe. He's excellent. I probably enjoyed it more read aloud than if I'd read it myself. It reminds of why Brit Lit fascinated me as a girl.
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- Nabou
- 03-06-19
A well-written cure for insomnia
H.P. Lovecraft is one of my favorite authors, so when I read his praise for Arthur Machen's work in a treatise he wrote about weird fiction, I was excited to listen to this. Mr. Machen was a very competent writer, but just because one can string together words eloquently doesn't mean one can write a good story. He's great at creating atmosphere, and there is some really engaging dialogue. But there are no thrills here. Not one decent scare. The stories meander on and fizzle out at the end. Sometimes a story would come to an end and another one would begin, and I thought I was still listening to the same story. The conclusions were not at all worth the buildup. I couldn't make it all the way through the book, unfortunately, though I took several breaks from it to listen to books that were actually entertaining. The only thing "weird" about this book is why Lovecraft liked it so much.
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