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| author = Arthur Machen
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| genre = Cosmic horror
| publication date = 1894
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{{quote|''"Great God, what simpletons! Show them Arthur Machen's Great God Pan and they'll think it a common Dunwich scandal!"''|from "[[
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▲{{quote|''"Great God, what simpletons! Show them Arthur Machen's Great God Pan and they'll think it a common Dunwich scandal!"''|from "[[The Dunwich Horror (Literature)|The Dunwich Horror]]" by [[HP Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]]}}
''The Great God Pan'' is also [
▲Written by [[Arthur Machen (Creator)|Arthur Machen]] in 1894 and originally published in a magazine, ''The Great God Pan'' is known for being one of the prototypes of the [[Cosmic Horror Story|Cosmic Horror]] genre. It was a huge influence on [[HP Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]], who used it as the basis for his own story ''[[The Dunwich Horror (Literature)|The Dunwich Horror]]'', as well as for the [[Cthulhu Mythos|deity]] [[Mother of a Thousand Young|Shub-Niggurath]]. It is worth noting that the main themes of the story - the idea that there are [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|horrors outside of our reality that we do not understand]] - are very Lovecraftian in nature, making these tropes [[Older Than They Think|older than you think]].
In Wales a scientist, Dr. Raymond, experiments on a woman named Mary to enable her to "see Pan". Sadly, her mind is broken and Clarke, who watched the experiment, gives up occultism. Cut to several years later in London, where another man named Villiers meets an old friend of his who was led to misery by his wife Helen Vaughan. Curious, Villiers begins investigating. Meanwhile, an alarming number of wealthy, prominent men are being driven to [[Go Mad
▲''The Great God Pan'' is also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan#Influence considered by] [[Stephen King]] to be "one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." He has stated that 2008 novella ''N.'' was a "riff" on it.
▲In Wales a scientist, Dr. Raymond, experiments on a woman named Mary to enable her to "see Pan". Sadly, her mind is broken and Clarke, who watched the experiment, gives up occultism. Cut to several years later in London, where another man named Villiers meets an old friend of his who was led to misery by his wife Helen Vaughan. Curious, Villiers begins investigating. Meanwhile, an alarming number of wealthy, prominent men are being driven to [[Go Mad From the Revelation|madness]] and [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]] following their encounters with a mysterious woman known as Mrs. Beaumont. Though Clarke is initially hesitant to give him the information he needs, Villers soon learns that Mrs. Beaumont is indeed Helen Vaughan, the daughter of Mary and the [[Eldritch Abomination|pagan nature deity]] Pan.
You can read it [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan here].
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Helen (when she doesn't have the [[Uncanny Valley]] effect going on) often appears to be a beautiful and charming woman.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: It was what got everyone into that mess.
* [[Campbell Country]]: Takes place in Britain. [[Captain Obvious|Was way before Ramsey Campbell's works]].
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: As mentioned above, Lovecraft cited this story as one of his main influences.
* [[Death
* [[Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?]]: More like "Were you just raped by Cthulhu" and "Did you just romance [[The Dunwich Horror
* [[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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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: This version of Pan is definitely very different from the satyr god of [[Greek Mythology]]. In addition, it is strongly implied Pan is also the [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic god]] Nodens, who would later join Lovecraft's works as one of his eldritch deities...
* [[Gone Mad From the Revelation]]
* [[Half
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: [[Drinking Game|Take a shot]] every time "queer" is used instead of "weird" or "strange". Also: "gay curtains".
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Helen was probably one of the first in modern literature.
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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.
* [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]]
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* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[Invoked]]: several characters describe Helen as beautiful but . . . wrong.
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* [[The Vamp]]: Helen.
* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: Pan is described this way.
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