VanEaston011
05-31-2015, 08:54 PM
Have any of you ever read Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan". Both Lovecraft and Stephen King have given it immense praise, with King once hailing it "the greatest horror story ever written in the English language". I've read it myself, and like a lot of things about it, but not so sure that it lives up to the hype.
If you've happened to read the tale yourself, what did you think of it? What parts did you like (or loathe) best/worst? And given it's very subtle nature, how did you interpret its events/message?
Finally, on a side-note, many believe "Pan" played an instructive role in the development of Lovecraft's own "The Dunwich Horror" and Lovecraft himself admitted at one point that Machen's other notable short tale "The Novel of the Black Seal" helped to inspire his penultimate masterpiece "The Call of Cthulhu."
If you've happened to read the tale yourself, what did you think of it? What parts did you like (or loathe) best/worst? And given it's very subtle nature, how did you interpret its events/message?
Finally, on a side-note, many believe "Pan" played an instructive role in the development of Lovecraft's own "The Dunwich Horror" and Lovecraft himself admitted at one point that Machen's other notable short tale "The Novel of the Black Seal" helped to inspire his penultimate masterpiece "The Call of Cthulhu."