title: The House of Souls (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
author:  Arthur Machen 
description: Arthur Machen is a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. Around 1890 Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, "The Great God Pan". It was published in 1894 by John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time. Machen's story was widely denounced for its sexual and horrific content and subsequently sold well, going into a second edition.
  						    	
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  # The  
  House of Souls
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## By Arthur Machen
  
  
  Short Story Index Reprint Series
  
  
  AYER COMPANY PUBLISHERS, INC.  
  NORTH STRATFORD, NH 03590
  
  
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  First Published 1922
  
  
  Reprint Edition, 1999  
  AYER Company Publishers, Inc.  
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  North Stratford, NH 03590
  
  
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