Characters in The Great God Pan

Mr. Clarke (The Great God Pan)

A London gentleman who witnesses Dr. Raymond's experiment and later collects the accounts that reveal what followed from it.

Helen Vaughan

The sinister woman at the center of the story, who surfaces in different places under different names and leaves ruined men behind her.

Pan (Greek)

Dr. Raymond (The Great God Pan)

A scientist who performs a brain operation on his ward in the hope of letting her perceive the god Pan, and sets the whole story in motion.

Mr. Villiers (The Great God Pan)

Clarke's acquaintance, who investigates the string of mysterious deaths and ruined lives that trace back to Helen Vaughan.

Mary (The Great God Pan)

Dr. Raymond's young ward, whose operation is meant to open her senses to the spiritual world behind the visible one.

Austin (The Great God Pan)

Villiers' companion in the investigation of Helen's trail across London's suicides and scandals.

Herbert (The Great God Pan)

Villiers' old friend, found reduced to a vagrant and blaming his wife for his ruin, which launches the investigation.

Arthur Meyrick

A painter whose path crosses Helen's in Buenos Aires, one of the links in the trail Villiers follows.