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The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen

The Great God Pan

Original publication
1894
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
128
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Horror, Philosophy
Translated from
English

Book summary

Dr Raymond operates on the brain of a young girl, Mary, so that she may see the hidden world behind our own. Years later, a little girl named Helen seems to carry within her a strange and disturbing presence. As time goes by, troubling events and unexplained tragedies occur around her. Those who cross her path glimpse a reality beyond human understanding. The story builds an oppressive atmosphere in which the supernatural seeps into the real. The author explores the limits of knowledge and the dangers of trying to uncover the hidden mysteries of the world, in a dark and fascinating work.

The plot

A doctor wants to reveal a hidden world. Dr Raymond believes that an invisible world lies hidden behind our own. He operates on the brain of Mary, a young girl, so that she can see it.

The world of the book

From the forests of Wales to the streets of London. Pan is a Greek god of the wild, half man, half goat. In the book, “seeing the god Pan” means seeing what the visible world hides.

The author

A Welshman born among Roman ruins. He is born in Caerleon, a small town in Wales built on the ruins of a Roman fortress. As a young man, he moves to London and becomes a translator. Memories of the ruins of his…

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Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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