The Great God Pan, perhaps unfairly, seems to me to be the neglected step child of “weird fiction”. This little book gets nowhere near the attention of Lovecraft’s stories, The King in Yellow, or anything by Lord Dunsany. I think that has more to do with this tales’ lack of a central, charismatic supernatural figure than with the writing, there is no Cthulhu or Hastur here for readers to latch onto. Despite this mild PR problem, this is a properly frightening tale about the limits of human understanding and what unknowable forces might lie right outside our limited perceptions. Dr. Raymond’s monologue in the beginning is certainly a highlight, setting the ominous tone for the rest of the work. Read this if you like Lovecraftian style horror fiction and have an afternoon to kill.