The Great God Pan / Великий бог Пан

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Артур Мейчен. The Great God Pan / Великий бог Пан

The Great God Pan

I. The Experiment

II. Mr. Clarke's Memoirs

III. The City of Resurrections

IV. The Discovery in Paul Street

V. The Letter of Advice

VI. The Suicides

VII. The Encounter in Soho

VIII. The Fragments

The White People

Prologue

The Green Book

Epilogue

The Red Hand

The Problem of the Fish-Hooks

Incident of the Letter

Search for the Vanished Heaven

The Artist of the Pavement

Story of the Treasure-house

The Black Seal

Prologue

Novel of the Black Seal

The Inmost Light

I

II

III

IV

V

The White Powder

Out of the Earth

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'I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time.'

'I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now. But have you no misgivings, Raymond? Is it absolutely safe?'

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The minutes passed slowly; they could hear a slow, heavy, ticking. There was an old clock in the passage. Clarke felt sick and faint; his knees shook beneath him, he could hardly stand.

Suddenly, as they watched, they heard a long-drawn sigh, and suddenly did the colour that had vanished return to the girl's cheeks, and suddenly her eyes opened. Clarke quailed before them. They shone with an awful light, looking far away, and a great wonder fell upon her face, and her hands stretched out as if to touch what was invisible; but in an instant the wonder faded, and gave place to the most awful terror. The muscles of her face were hideously convulsed, she shook from head to foot; the soul seemed struggling and shuddering within the house of flesh. It was a horrible sight, and Clarke rushed forward, as she fell shrieking to the floor.

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