Noodle Incident/Literature: Difference between revisions

* One of the earliest and most skillful uses of this trope ever appears in [[Arthur Machen (Creator)|Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan (Literature)|The Great God Pan]]'', a prototype of the [[Cosmic Horror Story]]. A beautiful female [[Humanoid Abomination]] is somehow driving men to suicide, although as to what exactly she did to them is left to our sordid imaginations.

{{quote| "Look at this neat little packet of manuscript; it is paginated, you see, and I have indulged in the civil coquetry of a ribbon of red tape. It has almost a legal air, hasn't it? Run your eye over it, Austin. It is an account of the entertainment Mrs. Beaumont provided for her choicer guests. The man who wrote this escaped with his life, but I do not think he will live many years. The doctors tell him he must have sustained some severe shock to the nerves."}}