Tales of Horror
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The House of Souls
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'The House of Souls' contains four of Arthur Machen's best short works: 'A Fragment of Life,' 'The White People,' 'The Great God Pan,' and 'The Inmost Light.' Introduction by Arthur Machen. 'His powerful horror-material of the nineties and earlier nineteen-hundreds stands alone in its class, and marks a distinct epoch in the history of this literary form.' -- H.P....
The Terror
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During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible. 'Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities.' The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it, and a shut gate. The roof was quite undamaged -- this had had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient violence to kill work-people in the building, but the building itself showed no wounds or...
