The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write "The Great God Pan" by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine "The Whirlwind" in 1890. Machen later extended "The Great God Pan" and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan. At the end, the heroes confront Helen and force her to kill herself. She undergoes a series of supernatural transformations before dying and she is revealed to be the child of Mary and the god Pan.
Bo Giertz
Giertz’s first regularly assigned parish was in Torpa, where he served as assistant vicar from 1938 until his election as bishop in 1949. Here he authored many theological works including "Kyrkofromhet" ("Ecclesiastical piety", which was published with "Kristi kyrka" in 1939); "Den stora lögnen och den stora sanningen" ("The great lie and the great truth", 1945); "Kampen om människan" ("The Battle For Man", 1947); "Stengrunden" (“The Hammer of God”, 1941); and "Tron allena" (“Faith Alone”, 1943).