CharactersHelen Vaughan
Helen Vaughan is the central figure of Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan. Her apparently human life is assembled from childhood reports, marriages, aliases and deaths associated with her presence. The concluding correspondence identifies Mary as her mother and connects her birth to Dr. Raymond’s experiment in forbidden perception. Helen belongs to Machen’s fiction; her role as a precursor does not make her a member of Lovecraft’s own pantheon.
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