Author(s): Machen, Arthur
Reader(s): Wickham, Peter
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0301
Barcode: 9781781981160
Release Date: 02/2018

MACHEN, A.: Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales (The) (Unabridged)

Dubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr Raymond uses her as a test subject for brain surgery aimed at ‘lifting the veil’ of reality, to see the supernatural and the ‘great god Pan’. The operation is a disaster and leaves the subject lobotomised. Years later, London becomes afflicted with a strange series of male suicides connected to a beautiful but sinister woman named Helen. Just who is she, and what is her connection to Dr Raymond’s failed experiment? First published in 1890, The Great God Pan influenced many writers of the genre, including the unrivalled master H.P. Lovecraft.

The collection also includes: The White People, The Green Book, The Inmost Light, The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Red Hand, The Shining Pyramid and A Fragment of Life.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Machen, Arthur - Author
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
1 The Great God Pan 10:25
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 There was not much furniture in the laboratory. 09:15
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 II. Mr Clarke's Memoirs 07:21
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 It was on one of these expeditions to the forest… 09:36
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 III. The City of Resurrections 08:47
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 The man went out into the bitter night… 09:50
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 IV. The Discovery in Paul Street 14:01
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 2
1 V. The Letter of Advice 12:52
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 VI. The Suicides 09:25
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 Austin relapsed into gloomy silence. 10:33
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 VII. The Encounter in Soho 08:16
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 Mr Villiers leaned back in his chair… 08:48
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 VIII. The Fragments 15:11
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 The White People 07:35
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 3
1 'You astonish me,' said Cotgrave. 13:31
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 The Green Book 10:44
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 I sat on the stone and looked all round… 11:28
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 I remembered this tale of nurse's… 08:41
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 At last the sun rose and the young man… 11:54
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 Nurse said there was once a young lady… 10:34
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 The next morning I was very tired and sleepy… 07:00
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 4
1 But I shall always remember those days… 08:53
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 Epilogue 06:39
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 The Inmost Light 09:29
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 Well, a year or two ago there was a doctor… 10:49
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 II. Mr Salisbury, as may have been gathered… 06:54
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 III. Salisbury was a man of habit. 08:44
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 'Let me see,' he said at last… 08:54
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
8 '"I live up there," said Black, pointing to the tiles…' 09:36
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 5
1 IV. A good many hours after Salisbury… 10:26
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 V. 'Ever since I was a young man'… 08:11
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 The Novel of the Black Seal 10:45
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 There was something very soothing… 10:36
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 He left me, and alone I endeavoured to fathom… 10:48
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 One morning, some eight or nine days after… 09:21
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 Two hours later Professor Gregg returned. 11:02
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 6
1 I was touched by the eloquence of his tone… 12:36
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 The well-meant gabble of the servant… 11:41
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 So the Greeks called the hideous furies… 11:25
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 To be brief, I heard that a woman named… 12:39
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 The Novel of the White Powder 12:24
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 I went away but little comforted, all confusion… 12:46
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 7
1 My mind was aghast at the thought of this… 09:40
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 I need not trouble you now with a detailed… 09:04
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 The Red Hand 15:02
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 Incident of the Letter 11:25
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 Search for the Vanished Heaven 13:27
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 The Artist on the Pavement 08:33
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 Story of the Treasure-House 06:45
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 8
1 I had at first great difficulty in persuading him… 08:56
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 I had occasion to be a little precise… 09:12
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 The Shining Pyramid 07:09
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 You recollect that curious case you spoke to me… 08:17
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 II. The Eyes on the Wall 12:35
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 III. The Search for the Bowl 05:39
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 IV. The Secret of the Pyramid 08:17
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
8 V. The Little People 13:25
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 9
1 A Fragment of Life 09:13
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 They were walking round and round the garden… 09:13
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 'It would be nearer twelve pounds than ten,'… 08:45
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 In the first few years of his life in the City… 08:45
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 'You never tell me about the men in your office,'… 09:14
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 'You remember what I said the other night…?' 12:36
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
7 II. All day long a fierce and heavy heat… 08:02
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
8 'Let me see,' said Darnell dreamily. 08:12
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 10
1 The song to which Darnell had listened… 12:12
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 'And all the strange tales I had ever heard…' 11:02
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 III. It might have been different in the evening… 10:08
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 'Well,' said Darnell, 'what happened next?' 12:26
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 It was at this stage of Robert's fortunes… 09:52
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
6 'I knew you wouldn't much like the idea,'… 11:51
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
Disc 11
1 IV. In a haze as of a dream Darnell's thoughts… 11:43
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
2 They were sitting thus together on the Friday… 11:41
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
3 Again and again it seemed as if that which… 12:11
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
4 And at the same time he began to guess that… 08:08
Wickham, Peter (Reader)
5 And so at last, after many turnings and windings… 08:07
Wickham, Peter (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 12:51:12