Years later, Villiers happens across his old friend Herbert, who has become a vagrant since they last met. Shortly after explaining what happened to her mother (never revealed in the story), she returns to the woods and disappears forever. On one occasion Rachel returns home distraught, half-naked and rambling. Helen also forms an unusually close friendship with a neighbour girl, Rachel, whom she leads several times into the woods. One day, a young boy stumbles across her "playing on the grass with a 'strange naked man, '" the boy becomes hysterical and later, after seeing a Roman statue of a satyr's head, becomes permanently feeble-minded. She spends much of her time in the woods near her house, and takes other children on prolonged twilight rambles in the countryside that disturb the parents of the town.
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Years later, Clarke learns of a beautiful but sinister girl named Helen Vaughan, who is reported to have caused a series of mysterious happenings in her town. She awakens from the operation awed and terrified but quickly becomes "a hopeless idiot". He performs the experiment, which involves minor brain surgery, on a young woman named Mary. The ultimate goal of the doctor is to open the mind of man so that he may experience the spiritual world, an experience he calls "seeing the great god Pan". the great god Pan".Synopsis edit] Clarke agrees, somewhat unwillingly, to bear witness to a strange experiment performed by his friend, Dr. The title was possibly inspired by the poem "A Musical Instrument" published in 1862 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the first line of every stanza ends ". 1] Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, but it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. The Great God Pan is a novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen.
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