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Short Fiction

Arthur Machen

BOOK TYPE
Short fiction
READING TIME
About 11.8 hours
WORDS
140,992
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About this book

A collection of nine short fiction works by influential supernatural and horror author Arthur Machen.

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. The Great God Pan
    1. I: The Experiment
    2. II: Mr. Clarke’s Memoirs
    3. III: The City of Resurrections
    4. IV: The Discovery in Paul Street
    5. V: The Letter of Advice
    6. VI: The Suicides
    7. VII: The Encounter in Soho
    8. VIII: The Fragments
  4. The Inmost Light
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
  5. The White People
    1. Prologue
    2. The Green Book
    3. Epilogue
  6. A Fragment of Life
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  7. The Bowmen
  8. The Soldiers’ Rest
  9. The Monstrance
  10. The Dazzling Light
  11. The Great Return
    1. I: The Rumour of the Marvellous
    2. II: Odours of Paradise
    3. III: A Secret in a Secret Place
    4. IV: The Ringing of the Bell
    5. V: The Rose of the Fire
    6. VI: Olwen’s Dream
    7. VII: The Mass of the Sangraal
  12. The Terror
    1. I: The Coming of the Terror
    2. II: Death in the Village
    3. III: The Doctors Theory
    4. IV: The Spread of the Terror
    5. V: The Incident of the Unknown Tree
    6. VI: Mr. Remnant’s Z-Ray
    7. VII: The Case of the Hidden Germans
    8. VIII: What Mr. Merritt Found
    9. IX: The Light on the Water
    10. X: The Child and the Moth
    11. XI: At Treff Loyne Farm
    12. XII: The Letter of Wrath
    13. XIII: The Last Words of Mr. Secretan
    14. XIV: The End of the Terror
  13. Endnotes
  14. Colophon
  15. Uncopyright

Edition & source

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2015-09-20
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-18
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • Arthur Machen (ann, aut)
  • Arnold Böcklin (art)
  • Tom Harris (trc)
  • Suzanne Shell (trc)
  • Stephen Blundell (trc)
  • Dave Haren (trc)
  • Marc D’Hooghe (trc)
  • Distributed Proofreaders (trc)
  • Alex Cabal (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
  • Brad Taylor (bkp, mrk, pfr, tyg)
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