The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write "The Great God Pan" by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine "The Whirlwind" in 1890. Machen later extended "The Great God Pan" and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan. At the end, the heroes confront Helen and force her to kill herself. She undergoes a series of supernatural transformations before dying and she is revealed to be the child of Mary and the god Pan.
Malachy Coney
He self-published a number of small press comics during the early 1990s, including the religious satire "Catholic Lad", "The Good Father", a story of family and sexuality, and a gay-themed parody superhero comic, "Major Power and Spunky", drawn by Sean Doran, which also appeared in the anthologies "Gay Comics" and "Buddies", and in a one-shot published by Fantagraphics' Eros Comix imprint in 1994. Eros also published Coney and Holden's "The Dandy Lion" in 1997. A third gay superhero parody, "The Simply Incredible Hunk", was drawn and self-published by Holden. In 1997 He contributed to the Belfast anthology "DNA Swamp", writing the Irish mythological superhero series "Keltor", illustrated by Christian Kotey, and the one-off strip "Life Dreams of a Homo Pacedermus", drawn by Doran.