Arthur Machen 
The House of Souls (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This collection of groundbreaking fantasy includes the decadent horror classic “The Great God Pan, ” about a mad scientist who brings Pan to earth. Also includes the mystical stories “A Fragment of Life, ” “The White People, ” and “The Inmost Light.”

About the author

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, was a Welsh author of Gothic-revival fantasy and horror stories which mixed fright with sex and decadence, and influenced other horror writers like H. P. Lovecraft. His “The Great God Pan” (1890) was deemed “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language” by Stephen King.