![]() ![]() "The great god Pan is dead!" has been supposed by centuries of Plutarch's readers to have meant that the resurrection of Christ was the death-knell of Hellenistic paganism. Hyde) - it uses a science-fictional innovation to touch off a series of frightful events. "The Great God Pan" is indispensable for its influence on later writers, including Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), King ("N"), and Straub ( Ghost Story), and - as is actually fairly typical of 19th-century horror literature (think of Frankenstein or The Strange Case of Dr. Show More is often cannibalized for its fine component stories, such as "The Novel of the Black Seal." Overall, the whole collection is a pleasure to read for those whose tastes run to the uncanny and the quietly twisted. ![]()
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