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The House of Souls
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Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work as a journalist, as a publishers clerk, and as a childrens tutor while writing in the evening and going on long rambling walks across London.
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Review from GR: While this is not a collection of thrilling or fascinating studies in the macabre, Machens subtle examination of his time and place as they co-existed within the realm of fantasy he fashioned around it certainly makes for interesting reading. While each story in a way decries mans growing fascination with science and psychiatry, they mostly turn out pretty badly for those that pursue the lost connection with the ancient forces from which the horror stuff is spun out of. In the first story a man slowly comes to realize that modern life is a pitiable life indeed and searches out lost and secret places in turn of the century London. The second story (and the best) begins with some philosophical ruminations on the nature of pure good and evil and how modern man fails at every turn to grasp their true meaning before switching to a tale told via a journal by a young girl learning witchcraft from her nurse who may be a fae creature. The third story tells of an experiment that brings into this world via unnatural birth a force that compels men to suicidal madness, and the last mirrors the previous closely, but with a bit more hubris thrown in for good measure. Overall this is not an out and out spook fest nor does it really go too heavily into the whole cosmic horror aspect that later authors would elaborate upon. I recommend this only if you are well acquainted with modern/weird horror in general and want to read something a little droll but still plenty fascinating for its era. WIKI synopsis: A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girls 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 black magic. Throughout, the girl makes cryptic allusions to such topics as "nymphs", "D ls", "voolas," "white, green, and scarlet ceremonies", "Aklo letters", the "Xu" and "Chian" languages, "Mao games", and a game called "Troy Town" (the last of which is a reference to actual practices involving labyrinths or labyrinthine dances[1]). The girls tale gradually develops a mounting atmosphere of suspense, with suggestions of witchcraft, only to break off abruptly just at the point where a supreme revelation seems imminent. In a return to the frame story, the diarys custodian reveals that the girls body was later found dead near a seemingly pagan statue in the woods. He adds that she had "poisoned herself in time", making the analogy of a child finding the key to a locked medicine cabinet
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