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Post by Middoth on Jul 7, 2021 12:49:59 GMT
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Post by samdawson on Jul 7, 2021 16:47:13 GMT
Several people on here are on there, maybe they can share feedback about it. Thanks Princess, I will give it a look
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Post by dem bones on Jul 7, 2021 17:07:53 GMT
--------------- From the Richard Dalby Mammoth Boopk of Ghost Stories thread. Browsing back over Benson's "The Man Who Went to Far" reminded me of an anthology idea that no one (as far as I can recall) has ever used: a book of Pan (as opposed to a Pan book). Other potential stories could include David Riley's "The Satyr's Head," Algernon Blackwood's "Roman Ruins," C. L. Moore's "Daemon," Saki's "The Music on the Hill," Henry S. Whitehead's "The People of Pan," and, of course, Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan." Also: Plus M. John Harrison's "Great God Pan" in Prime Evil. And there's a "Great God Pan" piss-take called "The Great Pan-Demon: An Unspeakable Story" by Arthur Sykes from 1895 that was reprinted in an issue of Aklo. Arthur Sykes - The Great Pan-Demon
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 7, 2021 17:09:52 GMT
A few more Pan-themed stories:
"The Man Who Went Too Far," E. F. Benson
"Roman Ruins," Algernon Blackwood
"Daemon," C. L. Moore
"The People of Pan," Henry S. Whitehead.
"Great Pan Is Here," Greye La Spina.
Edit: Ha, Dem and I raided my earlier post at the exact same time.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 7, 2021 17:14:34 GMT
A few more Pan-themed stories: "The Man Who Went Too Far," E. F. Benson "Roman Ruins," Algernon Blackwood "Daemon," C. L. Moore "The People of Pan," Henry S. Whitehead. "Great Pan Is Here," Greye La Spina. Edit: Ha, Dem and I raided my earlier post at the exact same time. It struck me as I was reading through the thread: "I'm sure we've had something like this before ..."
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 7, 2021 17:15:55 GMT
Swan mentioned the nice children's book The Wind and the Willows. And Pan appears in chapter 7, as Rat and Mole search for a missing otter child: and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. His piping is heard and the god gifts them forgetfulness. I loved The Wind in the Willows as a kid--except for this one chapter. At the time, I just wanted to get back to Mr. Toad's shenanigans. Later on, however, I discovered the Pink Floyd album. In retrospect, maybe the weasels and stoats of the Wild Wood had a point about the local aristocracy, but that's another tale.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 7, 2021 17:18:13 GMT
It struck me as I was reading through the thread: "I'm sure we've had something like this before ..." Sorry. I searched and didn't see it. I'll be more careful in future.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 7, 2021 17:20:47 GMT
It struck me as I was reading through the thread: "I'm sure we've had something like this before ..." Sorry. I searched and didn't see it. I'll be more careful in future. I think it deserves its own thread! Also, searches for “Pan” on this site tend to lead in a different direction.
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Post by Middoth on Jul 7, 2021 17:26:23 GMT
The Blessing of Pan by Lord Dunsany
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney
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Post by helrunar on Jul 7, 2021 17:47:47 GMT
Other tales worthy of note: E. M. Forster, "The Story of a Panic" Dion Fortune, The Goat-foot GodNeither of which I have read, oddly. This article might be of interest--the title, "an odd sort of God for the British," is certainly provocative: soulmyths.com/oddgod.pdfH.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 7, 2021 19:43:25 GMT
Sorry. I searched and didn't see it. I'll be more careful in future. I think it deserves its own thread! Also, searches for “Pan” on this site tend to lead in a different direction. Thank you.
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Post by humgoo on Apr 26, 2022 13:52:07 GMT
Margery Lawrence - Mr. Minchin's Midsummer ( The Night Side): Derleth comments: "Such [Pan-themed] stories are extremely difficult to write convincingly; the man on the street who is prepared to accept the consequences of atomic fission is considerably harder to convince about mythological figures in mankind's past. There are few effective stories of Pan-worship, apart from E. F. Benson's The Man Who Went too Far, and a mere handful of lesser tales. Miss Lawrence's is notably delightful."
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 26, 2022 18:56:44 GMT
Algernon Blackwood - The Touch of Pan (Day & Night Stories, 1917).
Barry Pain - The Moon-Slave (Stories in the Dark, 1901).
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 26, 2022 21:05:53 GMT
Margery Lawrence - Mr. Minchin's Midsummer aka "How Pan Came to Little Ingleton".
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 26, 2022 21:12:15 GMT
Here's the cover & blurb for the forthcoming BL collection - The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
In 1894, Arthur Machen’s landmark novella The Great God Pan was published, sparking a resurgence of literary fascination with the figure of the pagan goat god. Tales from a broad spectrum of writers - from E M Forster to prolific pulpsters such as Greye Le Spina - took the god’s rebellious and chaotic influence as their subject, spinning beguiling tales of society turned upside down and the forces of nature compelling protagonists to ecstatic heights or bizarre dooms.
Selecting an eclectic cross-section of tales and short poems from this boom of Pan-centric literature – many first published in the influential Weird Tales magazine – this new collection examines the roots of a cultural phenomenon and showcases Pan’s potential to introduce themes of queer awakening and celebrations of the transgressive into the thrillingly weird stories in which he was invoked.The quote is from Saki's The Music On The Hill. Inclusion of "short poems" is a worrying development...
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