The Great God Pan is a collection of stories that proved to be the foundation stones for the short-story genre in horror. Published in 1894, this volume catapulted Machen to the cult status he still maintains to this day.

"Machen is a genius right enough but I don’t take him to bed with me again."
Arthur Conan Doyle

"For ability to create an atmosphere of nameless terror I can think of no author living or dead who comes near to him."
Jerome K. Jerome

"Arthur Machen’s stories… are inspired by a genuine emotion. He hardly ever wrote merely to frighten others; he did so because he knew he lived in an alien world."
Jorge Luis Borges

Arthur Machen was a contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, all of whom admired his work tremendously. His legacy is as interesting as his work. His great literary significance was recognized by H.P. Lovecraft, who named Machen as one of the four "modern masters" of supernatural horror. He is clearly influential in the work of Peter Straub, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell and T.E.D. Klein, among others.