Gruselkabinett, Folge 144: Der gewaltige Gott Pan

Geschrieben von Arthur Machen

Erzählt von Michael-Che Koch, Thomas Balou Martin, Bodo Primus und Jacques Breuer

Mr. Clarke willigt ein, als Zeuge einem gewagten Experiment seines Freundes Dr. Raymond beizuwohnen, welches eine leichte Gehirn-Operation beinhaltet und der siebzehnjährigen Probandin Mary so Zugang zu geistigen Dimensionen eröffnen soll, in denen der gewaltige antike Gott Pan herrschtâ ¦

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Titania Medien
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29. März 2019

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh mystic and author. Born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, he was raised in Monmouthshire in a prominent family of clergymen. He developed an early interest in alchemy and other occult matters, and obtained a classical education at Hereford Cathedral School. He moved to London, where he failed to gain admittance to medical school and soon focused on his literary interests. Working as a tutor, he wrote in the evening and published his first poem, “Eleusinia,” in 1881. A novel, The Anatomy of Tobacco (1884), soon followed, launching his career as a professional writer. Machen made a name for himself as a frequent contributor to London literary magazines and achieved his first major success with the 1894 novella The Great God Pan. Following his wife’s death from cancer in 1899, he briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and began conducting research on Celtic Christianity, the legend of the Holy Grail, and the stories of King Arthur. In 1922, after a decade of working as a journalist for the Evening News, he published The Secret Glory—a story of the Grail—to popular and critical acclaim. This marked the highpoint of his career as a pioneering author of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction whose work has been admired and praised by William Butler Yeats, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Stephen King.

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Technically well made audioplay, which unfortunately suffers from the original story which did not age well.

The core of the story relies too much on the basic principle equating the Evil with some unimaginable sexual perversions/orgies as they were supposedly done in ancient Greece/Rome. Additionally all this is represented using victorian puritanism - so no details at all of what these perversions should be and the investigators just talking all the time about some unspecified unimaginably horrible things... Nowaday their behavior looks rather absurd, I would say almost laughable. Also the idea that sex perversions are the core part of the Evil is outdated (as if there could not be evil having nothing to do with sex - at least so it looks like in the story). It is almost caricature of victorian attitude to sex. Unfortunately it is so already in the original story by Arthur Machen and the audioplay authors could not change it (it would mean writing a new story).