The Shining Pyramid

A doctor's experiment opens a young woman's mind to the god Pan, and years later a trail of ruined lives leads back to her daughter. The novella that shocked Victorian London and that Stephen King called one of the best horror stories in English.

Arthur Machen

Through the green notebook of a teenage girl, Machen tells a slow, chilling initiation into an old pagan witchcraft hidden in the Welsh countryside. Often ranked among the finest weird tales ever written.

Arthur Machen

Three strangers spin tall tales to two London idlers, and each story hides a horror, including The Novel of the Black Seal and The Novel of the White Powder. A puzzle box of linked weird tales.

Arthur Machen

Machen's own 1906 selection of his best fiction: The White People, The Great God Pan, The Inmost Light, The Red Hand, The Shining Pyramid and A Fragment of Life. The ideal single volume to start with.

Arthur Machen

Ten short prose poems written in the 1890s, among them The Rose Garden, Witchcraft and The Ceremony, where pagan rites surface in quiet English lives. Machen at his most compressed and lyrical.

Arthur Machen