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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]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]}}▼
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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 "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" by [[H.P.
Written by [[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 [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]], who used it as the basis for his own story ''[[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]].
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''The Great God Pan'' is also [[wikipedia: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
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.
{{quote|"Yes, I married, Villiers. I met a girl, a girl of the most wonderful and most strange beauty, at the house of some people whom I knew. . . My friends had come to know her at Florence; she told them she was an orphan, the child of an English father and an Italian mother, and she charmed them as she charmed me. The first time I saw her was at an evening party. I was standing by the door talking to a friend, when suddenly above the hum and babble of conversation I heard a voice which seemed to thrill to my heart. She was singing an Italian song. I was introduced to her that evening, and in three months I married Helen. Villiers, that woman, if I can call her woman, corrupted my soul." }}
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