The Library After Dark
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The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman’s mind that lets something very old back into the world. The horror is almost entirely implied, never shown, and is worse for it. I would not recommend reading the ending alone.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 1 hr 25 min
Where to find it
The Evening Room
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #389. In the public domain in the United States.

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