{"product_id":"the-great-god-pan-the-white-people-by-arthur-machen-lettered-edition","title":"The Great God Pan \u0026 The White People by Arthur Machen - Lettered Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePRE-ORDER PRICE: $1950 \u003cbr\u003ePUBLICATION PRICE: $2150 \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the foundational works of supernatural fiction, Arthur Machen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e and “The White People” venture beyond reality as we know it, and into something older, stranger, and infinitely more dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e, an experimental procedure intended to lift the veil separating the human mind from the unseen world leaves a young woman permanently altered. Years later, a mysterious and beautiful woman named Helen Vaughan appears in London, leaving ruin, madness, and death in her wake. As a group of men begin to trace the strange events surrounding her, they uncover a connection to that long-ago experiment and a horror that challenges the boundaries between the natural and supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn “The White People,” Machen turns inward, framing his tale around the diary of a young girl initiated by her nurse into a secret world of folklore, ritual, and forbidden knowledge. Written in the guileless language of childhood, her account grows steadily more transgressive as familiar woods and hills give way to an ancient landscape of strange ceremonies, hidden languages, and forces she cannot fully comprehend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn early version of the opening chapter of \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in the literary magazine \u003cem\u003eThe Whirlwind\u003c\/em\u003e in 1890 before Machen expanded the work for book publication in 1894. Its appearance caused an immediate sensation. Critics attacked its suggestions of sexuality, paganism, and moral corruption, with one contemporary reviewer condemning it as “a perfectly abominable story.” The scandal nevertheless helped make the book Machen’s first major success, and its reputation would change dramatically in the decades that followed. Today, \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e is regarded as a landmark of weird and supernatural fiction. Of it, H. P. Lovecraft wrote that “no one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten several years later, “The White People” first appeared in \u003cem\u003eHorlick’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in 1904 and was subsequently collected in Machen’s \u003cem\u003eThe House of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e in 1906. Where \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e shocked its earliest readers, “The White People” achieved its power through suggestion and restraint, withholding explanation even as its sense of dread deepens. H. P. Lovecraft considered it among the greatest works of horror, praising it for its atmosphere and artistic achievement, while critic E. F. Bleiler would later call it “probably the finest single supernatural story of the century, perhaps in the literature.” Its strange vocabulary and occult mythology would also leave a direct mark on Lovecraft’s own fiction, including his use of Machen’s “Aklo” in “The Dunwich Horror.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition marks the first time \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e and “The White People” have been presented following a comparison with Machen’s surviving manuscripts. The texts were prepared by Henry Wessells, a longtime scholar of Arthur Machen whose work includes \u003cem\u003eArthur Machen: The Norman Hickman Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, a descriptive catalogue of an important collection of Machen manuscripts. His examination of the original materials has allowed previously omitted text to be recovered and restored, offering readers a closer view of the works as Machen originally conceived them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a century after their publication, \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan\u003c\/em\u003e and “The White People” remain masterpieces, revealing the terror that awaits when the veil of the ordinary is lifted and humanity glimpses what was never meant to be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe limited edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Great God Pan \u0026amp; The White People\u003c\/em\u003e by Arthur Machen is presented in two states: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.suntup.press\/products\/the-great-god-pan-the-white-people-by-arthur-machen-numbered-edition\"\u003eNumbered Edition\u003c\/a\u003e and Lettered Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLETTERED EDITION\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6.7 x 9.5 inches trim size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited to 26 copies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned by Flora McLachlan and Henry Wessells.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight stone lithographs by Flora McLachlan, tipped in by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuarter goatskin binding with hand-marbled paper sides by Claire Guillot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingle blind-blocked rule marking the edge of the leather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHead and tail bands handmade in leather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted letterpress by Scott Vile on his Heidelberg Cylinder on Handmade Twinrocker paper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandbound by Jace Graf in Elgin, Texas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoused in a clamshell enclosure with cloth-covered boards and velour-lined trays.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes new afterwords by Henry Wessells.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes reproductions of a rarely seen unpublished frontispiece etching by Herbert Jones for The Great God Pan, and two leaves from Machen's autograph manuscripts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetterpress bookmark with all pre-orders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003ePublished editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations © 2024 by Flora McLachlan.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suntup Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43012031873104,"sku":"MACHEN-LETTERED","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1801\/0657\/files\/MachenLettered_090626-scaled.jpg?v=1791732739","url":"https:\/\/shop.suntup.press\/products\/the-great-god-pan-the-white-people-by-arthur-machen-lettered-edition","provider":"Suntup Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}