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Download or read book The House of Souls written by Arthur Machen and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great God Pan and 'The White People' are classics of the horror genre, while The Inmost Light is more conventional, but still a damn good piece. A Fragment of Life, the only non-horror tale in the collection, has its tedious sections, but this proves to be intentional as a rendering of the ephemera of life drowning out the beauty. Machen's career, though rarely less than entertaining, eventually descended into lesser material going over the same ideas, but The House of Souls is one of his essential books along with The Hill of Dreams, Ornaments in Jade and The Three Impostors. Uniquely powerful literature from a veritable visionary. (Jim Smith)

Download or read book The House of Souls written by Arthur Machen Machen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella "The Great God Pan" (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language". He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.

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Download or read book The House of Souls written by Arthur Machen and published by Vamzzz Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Souls is a collection of four masterpieces of horror and mystery, by Arthur Machen, first collectively published in 1906. A Fragment of Life tells of a young couple, the Darnells, living in a London suburb. Machen gives an enormous amount of detail to illustrate the Darnells' life only to convince the reader (and Mr. Darnell) that this is just a fragment of life or part of a greater, but hidden reality. The White People was written in the late 1890s, and first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine. A discussion between two men on the nature of evil, leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It's a young girl's diary, in which she describes in ingenuous, evocative prose her strange impressions of the countryside in which she lives, as well as conversations with her nurse, who initiates her into a secret world of folklore and ritual magic... The Great God Pan was widely denounced by the press, on publication in 1894, as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content. Today it is recognised as one of the greatest classics of horror. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. The Inmost Light involves a doctor's scientific experiments into occultism, and a vampiric force instigated by his unrelenting curiosity regarding the unseen elements. A mysterious gemstone is the vampire mediator, soaking the soul of the doctor's wife and replacing it with something demonic. Dr. Black his own energy is then gradually sucked up by the stone too. In attempting to enter the forbidden and dark zone of the other worldly... Read more about Arthur Machen in the Post Scriptum of The House of Souls. Preview on vamzzz.com

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