We are continuing our festive ghost story reading of “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen.

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 Anthony Lee-Dudley, Brian Murphy, Sarah Dovey, and Scott Dorward, and Sue Savage.

If you’re reading this shortly after release, you have time to join us for the conclusion at 22:30 GMT on Thursday the 18th of December.

So take a bracing night-time walk, brush up on your Latin, and try not to dwell on those unsettling illustrations.

“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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