the white people and other weird stories

He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, where reading short stories and serials started his audiobook career. He has performed in television and film, and has written a successful series of introductions to Shakespeare for the BBC World Service. He has worked as an actor in the West End, and in theatres all over the UK and abroad, from Venezuela to Laos. Peter Wickham was born in New Zealand and studied for the theatre at the Rose Bruford College in England.

It makes perfect listening for a dark and rainy evening. The collection also includes: The White People, The Green Book, The Inmost Light, The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Red Hand, The Shining Pyramid and A Fragment of Life. Just who is she, and what is her connection to Dr Raymond’s failed experiment? First published in 1890, The Great God Pan influenced many writers of the genre, including the unrivalled master H.P.

Years later, London becomes afflicted with a strange series of male suicides connected to a beautiful but sinister woman named Helen. The operation is a disaster and leaves the subject lobotomised. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr Raymond uses her as a test subject for brain surgery aimed at ‘lifting the veil’ of reality, to see the supernatural and the ‘great god Pan’. Audio Sample Arthur Machen The Great God Pan and Other Weird Talesĭubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions.

The white people and other weird stories