Fading Supernatural

The House of Souls

by Arthur Machen

Linked tales explore the notion that certain souls carry an older, stranger inheritance just beneath an ordinary modern surface. Machen wrote horror that treated ancient myth as something merely dormant rather than dead. He believed the numinous was always closer than modern life wanted to admit.

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Reading time

About 5 hr 50 min

Where to find it

On the Fading Supernatural shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #25016. In the public domain in the United States.