[PDF]Chance Encounters: The Detective as ‘Expert’ in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan par Sage Leslie-McCarthy, National Library of Australia, www.nla.gov.au. p.35 : (en)« The Great God Pan met with mixed success when it was published. Contemporary reviews tended to converge around two primary criticisms: firstly, that the texts were “unwholesome” and “disgusting”, and secondly, that the element of “nameless terror” was ineffectual. The first of these is evident in a review from The Lady’s Pictorial, which characterises the story as “gruesome, ghastly, and dull...” »
