The Great God Pan: Difference between revisions

{{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 [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]]}}

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 [[H.P. 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]].

* [[Death Byby Sex]]: The unspeakable horrors that drive Helen's victims to suicide are strongly implied to be sexual in nature, although Victorian propriety prevented Machen from elaborating.

* [[Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?]]: More like "Were you just raped by Cthulhu" and "Did you just romance [[The Dunwich Horror (Literature)|Wilbur Whateley]]."