The House of Souls is a collection of four masterpieces of horror and mystery, by Arthur Machen, first collectively published in 1906. 

A Fragment of Life tells of a young couple, the Darnells, living in a London suburb. Machen gives an enormous amount of detail to illustrate the Darnells’ life only to convince the reader (and Mr. Darnell) that this is  just a fragment of life or part of a greater, but hidden reality. 

The White People was written in the late 1890s, and first published in...