In this episode we finish off Arthur Machen's Novella "The Great God Pan". Villiers learns the fate of his friend Herbert, contacts Mr. Clarke, and follows a trail of death to the door of a prominent socialite. It's scary! It's twisted! But don't worry it's not that bad.

Link to the text:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-machen/short-fiction

Link to weather.gov

https://www.weather.gov/

This is my frog candle. I like it.

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Welcome to the first episode of Small Frights and Other Delights. In this episode I ramble on about why I'm doing the podcast, introduce Arthur Machen and Aubrey Beardsley, and read the first few parts of the Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, one of my favorite horror short stories.

In this story, a mad doctor tries to perform a surgery that will open up the mind of man to the ineffable spiritual world, his confidant reels from the witnessing of the surgery and then plunges back into the world of the occult through the memoirs of a man named Villiers. It's based in London. It's weird. You can imagine the vials and test tubes and damp English nights.

Here are the websites I mention in the episode

Standard eBooks: https://standardebooks.org/

The Great God Pan (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan

Aubrey Beardsley (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley