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In many ways this is an update of Arthur Machen's 1890 fantasy sci-fi classic "The Great God Pan," except instead of finding out one of the characters was fathered by Pan, they find out he was fathered by Satan. " Not unlike "Rosemary's Baby," this tale - often lambasted by critics for its misogyny - is the story of how abuse, sexism, and moral relativism turn a defenseless woman into the surrogate mother of an abomination - a child who will usher in apocalypse if left unchecked. In "Rosemary's Baby" that child was the spawn of Satan. In Machen's novella, we can never be sure. Outer forces with archetypal connections to Celtic and Roman paganism - gods or monsters or aliens or elementals that humanity had detected since our retreat into the caves where fire kept the bogeys at bay. Machen is never precise about what impregnates the victim of his amoral scientist, but he implies that it is a force of chaos, virulently anti-human, hateful of innocence and life - a power that uses human beings without loving them, that unfeelingly wrings them dry of life and hope before sending them away to madness and suicide."

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