In Fiction
Perhaps inspired by the Lydney Park excavations, Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan (1890; revised and expanded 1894) has a Roman pillar dedicated to Nodens. The dedication is made by one Flavius Senilis "on account of the marriage which he saw beneath the shade", and there is a strong hint that Nodens is in fact Pan.
In H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926), Nodens an "archaic" god served by the nightgaunts. He is also depicted as somewhat benevolent and opposes the frightening Nyarlathotep.
In Laurell K. Hamilton's Mistral's Kiss of the Merry Gentry series, Doyle was revealed to have once been Nodons, "a god of healing". Probably supported by one of his other forms being a dog and that Doyle's lick has the ability to cure minor wounds.
In Doranna Durgin's 2001 novel A Feral Darkness, Nodens (Referred to as 'Mars Nodens') plays a crucial role throughout the book.
Brian Keene's 2006 novel Dark Hollow utilizes Nodens as an outer deity, one of thirteen separate from God's Heaven and Hell, and as ruler of a realm known as the Labyrinth. Keene's Nodens is the father to Pan and Labyrinth is the realm satyrs hail from in this work.
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