Question

After a brain-altering operation undertaken in this country, Mary loses her mind and gives birth to the shape-shifting child of an occult deity. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, whose folk beliefs inspired horror stories by Arthur Machen [mae-ken] like “The Great God Pan.” The dreams of Captain Cat and other residents of this country are the subject of the radio drama Under Milk Wood.
ANSWER: Wales [prompt on the United Kingdom; prompt on Great Britain; reject “England”]
[10e] Arthur Machen’s weird, decadent stories influenced this later writer, who paid homage to him in “The Dunwich Horror” and other eldritch tales from the Cthulhu mythos.
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Philips Lovecraft]
[10h] In a Machen story partly titled for this adjective, a girl wanders through a valley seemingly inhabited by malevolent fairies. This adjective partly titles an infamous novel in which Arabella March can turn into a serpent.
ANSWER: white [accept “The White People”; accept The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker]
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Michigan ACase Western1010020
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