# The House of Souls

Author: Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947

Genre: Horror

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25016

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+House+of+Souls+Machen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_It was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume in literature. The rich, figured English of the earlier part of the seventeenth century had always had a peculiar attraction for me. I accustomed myself to write in it, to think in it; I kept a diary in that manner, and half-unconsciously dressed up my every day thoughts and common experiences in the habit of the Cavalier or of the Caroline Divine. Thus, when in 1884 I got a commission to translate the Heptameron, I wrote quite naturally in the language of my favourite period, an...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-souls-25016/chapters/22/index.md)