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The House of Souls

by Arthur Machen

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Today, H.P. Lovecraft is regarded as one of the luminaries of the horror genreā??but who were his literary influences? The often-overlooked work of nineteenth-century author Arthur Machen is said to have been very important to the formation of Lovecraft's inimitable style. This collection brings together four of Machen's weird, wonderful tales.… (more)

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The first story "A Fragment of Life" was a bit long in parts, which caused me to skip ahead to the next stories in the collection. I probably liked the White People the best.

Certainly though has a lot of the mysticism that I like and reminds quite a bit of Dunsany.

I did go back and read "A Fragment of Life" and there's some excellent parts in it.

Certainly a collection of stories, that like a lot of Dunsany's work as well, best read as the sun sets. ( )
  JonathanGorman | May 17, 2011 |
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Fiction. Horror. Short Stories. Thriller. HTML:

Today, H.P. Lovecraft is regarded as one of the luminaries of the horror genreā??but who were his literary influences? The often-overlooked work of nineteenth-century author Arthur Machen is said to have been very important to the formation of Lovecraft's inimitable style. This collection brings together four of Machen's weird, wonderful tales.

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