This article provides a comparative study of the underlying cognitive structures laid out in Arthur Machen’s decadent novella The Great God Pan (1894) and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (1873). It scrutinizes the images of the “chamber of consciousness” and “the house of life”, deployed by the German philosopher and the Welsh author respectively, and explores how the use and the stylistic qualities of both images affect and determine the overall conception of reality exposed in each work. This analysis helps identify Nietzschean undertones in Machen’s novella, which, in turn, allows an interpretation of The Great God Pan through the lens of Nietzsche’s discourses on cognition and reality. The reading resulting from the analysis puts forward two conclusions. Firstly, Nietzsche’s concept of “Dionysian wisdom” brings to light and informs a specific and yet unexplored source of horror in Machen’s novella, i.e., the feeling of revulsion developed by Helen Vaughn’s victims after they experience Dionysian rapture. Secondly, the analysis of the concepts of reality implied in Nietzsche’s and Machen’s imagery contributes an argument for the idea of reality as becoming in the context of Machen’s novella.

本文对阿瑟·梅钦的颓废中篇小说《潘大神》（1894 年）和弗里德里希·尼采的《论非道德意义上的真理与谎言》（1873 年）中所阐述的潜在认知结构进行了比较研究。它审视了德国哲学家和威尔士作家分别运用的“意识之室”和“生命之屋”的图像，并探讨了这两种图像的使用和风格品质如何影响和决定现实的整体概念。暴露在每部作品中。这一分析有助于识别梅钦中篇小说中尼采的内涵，从而可以解释《潘大神》通过尼采关于认知和现实的话语的镜头。分析结果得出两个结论。首先，尼采的“酒神智慧”概念揭示并揭示了梅钦中篇小说中一个具体但尚未探索的恐怖根源，即海伦·沃恩笔下的受害者在经历酒神狂喜后产生的厌恶感。其次，对尼采和梅钦意象中隐含的现实概念的分析为梅钦中篇小说背景下的现实观念提供了论证。