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Look about you, Clark. You see the mountain and hill following after hill as wave on wave. You see the woods and orchard, the fields of ripe corn and the

meadows reaching to the Reed beds by the river. You see me standing here beside you and hear my voice.

But I tell you that all these things, yes, from that star that has just shown out in the sky

to the solid ground beneath our feet, I say that all these are but dreams and shadows,

the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes.

There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision.

Beyond these chases and ours, dreams in a career, beyond them all, as beyond a veil.

I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil,

but I do know, Clark, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night

from before another's eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense. It may be strange, but it is true. And the ancients knew what

lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the God pan.

That is one of the beginning paragraphs from Arthur Mackins of the great God pan. That's right and we are covering that story here at the

H.P. Lovecraft.com. I'm Chad Fyfer and I'm Chris Lanky Chad. Why are we

covering an Arthur Macon story on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast?

Well Chris because for some... on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

Well, Chris, because for some time now we've been covering other authors besides H.P.

Lovecraft.

These are authors that he held in high regard and stories that he spoke about in his essay on weird fiction

called supernatural horror and literature. I didn't realize until the last few years

since we were doing this podcast but it is one of the classics of horror literature.

Lovecraft talks about this story at length, although Stephen King has also cited it as one of the best in English literature. Referenced in just after sunset, which was a collection of his, that he says this story of Matt Arthur Mackins surmounts it's rather

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