A woman in Wales has her mind destroyed by a scientist's attempt to enable her to see the god of nature Pan. Years later, a young woman named Helen Vaughan arrives on the London social scene, disturbing many young men and causing some to commit suicide; it transpires that she is the monstrous offspring of the god Pan and the woman in the experiment.
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Arthur Machen. The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan. Arthur Machen
Chapter 1 The Experiment
Chapter 2 Mr. Clarke's Memoirs
Chapter 3 The City of Resurrections
Chapter 4 The Discovery in Paul Street
Chapter 5 The Letter of Advice
Chapter 6 The Suicides
Chapter 7 The Encounter in Soho
Chapter 8 The Fragments
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The Great God Pan
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"You see that parchment Oswald Crollius? He was one of the first to show me the way, though I don't think he ever found it himself. That is a strange saying of his: 'In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.'"
There was not much furniture in the laboratory. The table in the centre, a stone slab with a drain in one corner, the two armchairs on which Raymond and Clarke were sitting; that was all, except an odd-looking chair at the furthest end of the room. Clarke looked at it, and raised his eyebrows.
