| The House of Souls Contributor(s): Machen, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547061308 ISBN-13: 9781547061303 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.64 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: And somehow, though the tale was written and printed and paid for; it stayed with me as a tale half told in the years from 1890 to 1899. I was in love with the notion: this contrast between the raw London suburb and its mean limited life and its daily journeys to the City; its utter banality and lack of significance; between all this and the old, grey mullioned house under the forest near the river, the armorial bearings on the Jacobean porch, and noble old traditions: all this captivated me and I thought of my mistold tale at intervals, while I was writing "The Great God Pan," "The Red Hand," "The Three Impostors," "The Hill of Dreams," "The White People," and "Hieroglyphics." It was at the back of my head, I suppose, all the time, and at last in '99 I began to write it all over again from a somewhat different standpoint. The fact was that one grey Sunday afternoon in the March of that year, I went for a long walk with a friend. I was living in Gray's Inn in those days, and we stravaged up Gray's Inn Road on one of those queer, unscientific explorations of the odd corners of London in which I have always delighted. I don't think that there was any definite scheme laid down; but we resisted manifold temptations. |