The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
نویسنده
Peter Wickhamناشر
Naxos AudioBooksشابک
9781781981177
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Starred review from January 22, 2018
Editor Worth has assembled a connoisseur’s collection of the work of legendary Welsh writer Machen (1863–1947), whose weird fiction frequently features characters who pierce the veil of the ordinary and encounter terrifying mysteries and marvels beyond it. In addition to such established classics as “The Great God Pan,” about the unholy offspring spawned by a misguided medical experiment, and “The White People,” an account of an innocent young girl’s indoctrination into a malignant witch cult, the book’s 19 stories include the complete episodic novel “The Three Impostors,” whose frame narrative about the clash between materialism and mysticism provide context for the stories usually excerpted from it (notably “Novel of the Black Seal,” about an incautious investigator’s encounter with a hideous survival from the pagan past). Worth has also harvested a number of sketches from Machen’s later collections that are notable for their depictions of ordinary lives touched subtly by the strange. This is a must-have collection of landmark tales of horror.
In a comfortable, approachable style, actor Peter Wickham creates the feeling of relaxing in a nineteenth-century English drawing room while swapping tales of the macabre, fairy folk, and undiscovered worlds. In a tone that is equal parts beguilement and wonder, Wickham leads listeners through this late-nineteenth-century collection of nine short stories, including the title tale and the superb "White People." The works focus on Arthur Machen's early influences: his vast knowledge of Welsh folklore, the occult, and a short stint in medical school. Long a favorite of horror meisters from H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King, Machen was one of the primary architects of modern horror and dark fantasy. This collection is an excellent introduction to his gentle and eerie worlds. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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