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The House of Souls, by Arthur Machen
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Title: The House of Souls
Author: Arthur Machen
Release Date: April 7, 2008 [EBook #25016]
Language: English
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The House of Souls
By Arthur Machen
Short Story Index Reprint Series
AYER COMPANY PUBLISHERS, INC. NORTH STRATFORD, NH 03590
First Published 1922
Reprint Edition, 1999 AYER Company Publishers, Inc. Lower Mill Road North Stratford, NH 03590
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. The oe ligature is shown as [oe].
Contents
A Fragment of Life 1
The White People 111
The Great God Pan 167
The Inmost Light 245
Introduction
It was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume in literature. The ric