History YMMV / TheGreatGodPan

* EvilIsSexy

* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.

* UnfortunateImplications: Some modern readers have criticized the story for misogyny.[[http://weirdgenesis.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-great-god-pan-1890-by-arthur-machen.html]][[http://somanybooksblog.com/2012/10/31/the-great-god-pan/]][[http://ttapress.com/1030/on-machen-misogyny-and-mad-women-in-attics/]][[http://www.blackgate.com/2012/10/30/arthur-machen-and-the-great-god-pan/]] ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (1993) is widely quoted as stating that "The story begins with an sf rationale (brain surgery) which remains one of the most dramatically horrible and misogynistic in fiction."[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan#Critical_opinion]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Some modern readers have criticized the story for misogyny.[[http://somanybooksblog.com/2012/10/31/the-great-god-pan/]][[http://ttapress.com/1030/on-machen-misogyny-and-mad-women-in-attics/]][[http://www.blackgate.com/2012/10/30/arthur-machen-and-the-great-god-pan/]] ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (1993) is widely quoted as stating that "The story begins with an sf rationale (brain surgery) which remains one of the most dramatically horrible and misogynistic in fiction."[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan#Critical_opinion]]

* NightmareFuel: This story managed to given Creator/StephenKing some nights of nightmares, as he described in the endnotes to his short story collection ''Literature/JustAfterSunset''.

* NightmareFuel: This story managed to given Creator/StephenKing some nights of nightmares.
--> "[''The Great God Pan''] surmounts its rather clumsy prose and works its way relentlessly into the reader's terror-zone. How many sleepless nights has it caused? God knows, but a few of them were mine. I think 'Pan' is as close as the horror genre comes to a great white whale."
---> - From the endnotes to his short story collection ''Literature/JustAfterSunset''

-->"As you know, I rescued Mary from the gutter, and from almost certain starvation, when she was a child; I think her life is mine, to use as I see fit."
* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.

* UnfortunateImplications: The story can be seen as demonising female sexuality.

---> - From the endnotes to his short story collection ''Just After Sunset''

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is a monster using sex to destroy men. She must be killed! (By men.) Specifically, the story is blaming a woman's sexual behavior for the downfall of her male partners, even though they participated willingly.

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is a monster using sex to destroy men. She must be killed! (By men.) Specifically, the story is blaming a woman's sexual behavior for the downfall of her male partners, even though they participated willingly. Female sexuality has ''long'' been portrayed as demonic or dangerous, going back to Lilith, the Sirens, Circe, witches accused of sleeping with Satan, and so forth. The idea of women in general being the downfall of men dates back to Eve.

* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.
* Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Helen, especially near the end

* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This story managed to given '''Creator/StephenKing''' some nights of nightmares.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This story managed to given '''StephenKing''' some nights of nightmares.
--> "[''The Great God Pan''] surmounts its rather clumsy prose and works its way relentlessly into the reader's terror-zone. How many sleepless nights has it caused? God knows, but a few of them were mine. I think 'Pan' is as close as the horror genre comes to a great white whale."

* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is a monster using sex to destroy men. She must be killed! (By men.) Specifically, the story is blaming a woman's sexual behavior for the downfall of her male partners, even though they participated willingly. Female sexuality has ''long'' been portrayed as demonic or dangerous, going back to Lilith, the Sirens, Circe, witches accused of sleeping with Satan, and so forth.

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is a monster using sex to destroy men. She must be killed! (By men.)

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is destroying men with her sexuality. She must be killed! (By men.)

* UnfortunateImplications: A single, independent woman is destroying men with her sexuality. She must be destroyed! (By men.)

* TheWoobie: Poor Mary and Trevor.

-> "[''The Great God Pan''] surmounts its rather clumsy prose and works its way relentlessly into the reader's terror-zone. How many sleepless nights has it caused? God knows, but a few of them were mine. I think 'Pan' is as close as the horror genre comes to a great white whale."
--> From the endnotes to his short story collection ''Just After Sunset''

--> "[''The Great God Pan''] surmounts its rather clumsy prose and works its way relentlessly into the reader's terror-zone. How many sleepless nights has it caused? God knows, but a few of them were mine. I think 'Pan' is as close as the horror genre comes to a great white whale." (from the endnotes to his short story collection ''Just After Sunset'')

** From the endnotes to his short story collection ''Just After Sunset'': ''The Great God Pan'' "surmounts its rather clumsy prose and works its way relentlessly into the reader's terror-zone. How many sleepless nights has it caused? God knows, but a few of them were mine. I think 'Pan' is as close as the horror genre comes to a great white whale."

* UncannyValley: Several characters describe Helen as beautiful but . . . wrong.
-->"Everyone who saw her at the police court said she was at once the most beautiful woman and the most repulsive they had ever set eyes on. I have spoken to a man who saw her, and I assure you he positively shuddered as he tried to describe the woman, but he couldn't tell why."

-->"She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn't like. The features are exquisite, but the expression is strange."

-->"She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn't like. She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn't like. The features are exquisite, but the expression is strange."

-->"She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn't like."