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The Great God Pan
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The Great God Pan is a Novella written by Arthur Machen in two phases. Originally, the story was limited to what would later be the first chapter; this Short Story version of "The Great God Pan" was published in Vol. 2 No. 24 of The Whirlwind on December 13, 1890. Machen reworked it into a bigger tale the following year and got it published in 1894 as the fifth entry in John Lane's Keynotes Series. Controversial at the time, public opinion improved within two to three decades and it's nowadays regarded as one of the prototypes of the Cosmic Horror Story.In 1916, The Great God Pan received its first solo print. For the occasion, Machen wrote an introduction on the origin of the novella. In January 1891, several months after he had finished and submitted the first version of "The Great God Pan", he began work on "The City of Resurrections". When finished, he realized that like "The Great God Pan", it didn't fit the mold of a society tale as he'd set out to write. Thus, he was inspired to rework the two short stories into one novella, with "The City of Resurrections" becoming the third chapter. He completed the manuscript in June 1891. For its first print in 1894, The Great God Pan was bundled with The Inmost Light, a thematically similar text Machen wrote in 1892.Deep in the countryside of Wales, an occult scientist named Dr. Raymond invites a friend, Mr. Clarke, to witness an experiment he intends to perform on a teenage girl, which he claims will allow her "to see the god Pan". The experiment is a success, however the procedure destroys the girl's mind, and she is left in a permanent catatonic state. Horrified, Clarke disavows Dr. Raymond and occultism.Several years later in London, a man called Villiers runs into an old friend of his who's been brought to ruin by his wife, Helen Vaughan. Villiers, piqued by his friend's story, looks into the woman's past. Meanwhile, an alarming number of wealthy, prominent men are being driven to madness and suicide after encountering a mysterious woman known only as Mrs. Beaumont. Villiers' investigation eventually leads him to Clarke, who has answers about Helen and Mrs. Beaumont that are beyond his wildest ken.The Great God Pan was a huge influence on H. P. Lovecraft, who used it as the basis for The Dunwich Horror, as well as for the deity Shub-Niggurath. Other stories known or suspected to have been directly influenced by it are "The Nameless Offspring", Alraune, and "N.". | |
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Rape as Drama | |
The Great God Pan / int_12dd1d4c | comment |
Rape as Drama: Or rather, rape as horror. Never spoken outright, but it permeates the story in implication, from Dr. Raymond's creepy possession of and regard of Mary as his property, what Pan does to Mary and of course what Helen does to her victims, which is almost explicitly sexual in nature and traumatizes them to madness and suicide. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: There's a lot of unspeakably awful stuff that's hinted at or only described off-screen. | |
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Ambiguous Situation: It's never clarified how Villiers convinces Helen to hang herself, given that his plan to call the cops on her if she doesn't oblige seems feeble considering that her "murders" left no proof that a Muggle police would buy. However, given that there's at least one transcription of what Helen's "parties" had going on in them, it's possible Villiers had planned to denounce her for her occult practices and hope it would make at least enough of a mess to end her reign of terror. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_2764d432 | type |
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Helen often appears to be a beautiful and charming woman. | |
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Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: | |
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Don't Go in the Woods | |
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Don't Go in the Woods: "Ah, mother, mother, why did you let me go in the forest with Helen?" "The man in the wood! Father! Father!" | |
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The Great God Pan / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Dr. Raymond is pretty vocal about using a girl as a test subject for his insight into the supernatural. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident/Nothing Is Scarier: To an artform, since most of the horror is derived from Fridge Horror as you're invited to fill in the gaps of the scant information you're given. | |
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I'm Melting! | |
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I'm Melting!: A variation in which the person becomes a blob after dying. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_408ba21c | type |
Womb Horror | |
The Great God Pan / int_408ba21c | comment |
Womb Horror: Mary is forcibly impregnated with and gives birth to Pan's daughter (or possible avatar) Helen. | |
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Mystical Pregnancy | |
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Mystical Pregnancy: Mary is impregnated by Pan during the experiment. | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: Mary is 17 when she's impregnated with Helen. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Dr. Raymond and Austin both die in the graphic novel despite surviving the original story. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: The description of Helen's corpse changing sex, transforming into a beast and then melting definitely has shades of this. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_566f3ddd | type |
Nature Spirit | |
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Nature Spirit: A very, very dark version, being an Eldritch Abomination embodying the wilds and the "darkness beyond the stars". | |
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Shapeshifter Swan Song | |
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Shapeshifter Swan Song: Apparently, Helen becomes a sort of living, primordial ooze upon dying. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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Cosmic Horror Story: As mentioned above, Lovecraft cited this story as one of his main influences. | |
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Uncanny Valley | |
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Uncanny Valley: In-universe. Several characters describe Helen as beautiful but... wrong. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Mary has a child with a divine entity. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Both Helen's victims and herself. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
The Great God Pan / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: Helen was probably one of the first in modern literature. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
The Great God Pan / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: This version of Pan is definitely very different from the merry satyr god of Greek Mythology. In addition, it is strongly implied Pan is also the Celtic god Nodens, who would later join Lovecraft's works as one of his eldritch deities... | |
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Occult Detective | |
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Occult Detective: Villiers would qualify if he knew what he was investigating was supernatural. | |
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Campbell Country | |
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Campbell Country: Takes place in Britain, though it predates the Trope Codifier. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Though somewhat implied to be less of a hybrid and more an avatar. | |
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Black Widow | |
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Black Widow: Helen, whose husbands tend to be Driven to Suicide after she's got their money. | |
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Indirect Serial Killer | |
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Indirect Serial Killer: Helen's modus operandi is to abuse her victims in ways best left to the imagination and expose them to things beyond their comprehension, driving them irrevocably insane and culminating in their suicides. | |
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Luck-Based Search Technique | |
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Luck-Based Search Technique: Villiers first stumbles upon the notes accidentally. | |
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Break Them by Talking | |
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Break Them by Talking: Although Helen's horrors are widely considered to be related to sexual or physical experiences, the only time we have a glimpse of what happens in her bedroom she is simply sitting in the bed while telling something to her soon-to-be-dead husband. What was she saying, of course, is unrevealed. | |
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The Great God Pan / int_c3bafbce | type |
Satan | |
The Great God Pan / int_c3bafbce | comment |
Satan: Clarke comes to believe Pan to be Satan. After witnessing the experiment on Mary, he writes a series of memoirs surrounding Helen's upbringing called Memoirs to Prove the Existence of the Devil. Towards he end of the second chapter, he reaches the conclusion that Helen is an incarnation of the devil. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Helen Vaughan is likely named after Helen from Classical Mythology — another demigoddess who was a Child Of Rape — whose beauty infamously catalyzed the Trojan War. | |
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ChildOfRape | |
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Child Of Rape: Helen is born after her mother Mary is raped by the cosmic entity called Pan. | |
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Leave Behind a Pistol | |
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Leave Behind a Pistol: A non-firearms variant. | |
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Platonic Cave | |
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Platonic Cave: Raymond believes in this, and it is what drove him to perform the experiment. | |
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Adaptational Abomination | |
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Adaptational Abomination: The titular Pan himself, going from a whimsical satyr to something much, much more alien. | |
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Disposable Vagrant | |
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Disposable Vagrant: What Dr. Raymond regards Mary as due to having "rescued" her from poverty when she was a child. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Pan is described this way. | |
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Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? | |
The Great God Pan / int_f528b28d | comment |
Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: A number of men have married Helen Vaughan under her many aliases. They tend not to survive. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Take a shot every time "queer" is used instead of "weird" or "strange". Also: "gay curtains". | |
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Semi-Divine | |
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Semi-Divine: Helen is the child of a god and a female human, which makes her a monstrous and twisted version of a demigod. | |
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