The House of Souls

About this book

A young girl records stories no adult should want to hear. Elsewhere, a scientific experiment opens a concealed world and investigators encounter traces of an older, crueler reality.

Arthur Machen gathers some of his best-known unsettling fiction in The House of Souls. The stories inhabit quiet streets, decaying buildings and spaces where folklore refuses to stay in the past. Their horror often comes from the difference between what characters witness and what they can bear to say aloud.