It is time once again for us to all gather around the virtual hearth for another festive ghost story reading. This year, we present “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen, a weird tale of mad science, supernatural horror, and very human revenge.

This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers Andy Goodman, Graham Walmsley, Jen Fridy, Sarah Dovey, Scott Dorward, and Sue Savage.

If you’re reading this shortly after release, you have time to join us for part 2 at 22:30 GMT on Tuesday the 16th of December. We shall be continuing after that at the same time on Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th.

So settle back in a comfortable chair, open your mind, and prepare to experience the Great God Pan.

“Veni, Veni Emmanuel”, arranged by Jon Fylling, is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

If you would like to read along at home, you can find Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” on Project Gutenberg.

And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:

• “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
• “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
• “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol
• “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Searcher of the End House” by William Hope Hodgson
• “The Horse of the Invisible” by William Hope Hodgson

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