IL GRANDE DIO PAN (L'IPPOCAMPO)

A demonic being seems to haunt the streets of London: it is a woman who hides a veil of mystery and strangeness. Those who have encountered her have ended their days in dark circumstances, their faces deformed by a grimace of horror. For what fatal fate does this superb creature sow death? Has she perhaps made a pact with an evil power? Or was it her mother, victim of the experience of a mad scientist, who made her glimpse what the human eye cannot contemplate? 'You may find all this strange, or even senseless: strange yes, but real. The Ancients knew what it meant to 'remove the veil': they called it 'seeing the god Pan'. A masterpiece of British decadent literature, this title brings together numerous stories (The Great God Pan, The Inner Light, The Story of the Black Seal, The Story of the White Powder, The Fire Pyramid) by Arthur Machen, a great master of terror and the fantastic, author of a hallucinatory work imbued with Celtic mythology, paganism, and morbid occultism. With prefaces by Jorge Luis Borges and Guillermo del Toro, the afterword by S.T. Joshi, a distinguished specialist in H.P. Lovecraft, on whom Machen exerted a considerable influence, the book, like The King in Yellow, is brilliantly illustrated by the great Paraguayan artist Samuel Araya.