Classic Pulp

“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing.” On publication, it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its implied sexual content, and the novella hurt Machen’s reputation…

The House of Souls is a collection of four masterpieces of horror and mystery by Arthur Machen, first collectively published in 1906. Controversial and curious, is an apt way to describe his curious fiction. A Fragment of Life is a sensitively supernatural story. It tells of a young, seemingly ordinary couple, the Darnells. They are…

Patricia Lane is a spirited young woman, in the midst of a passionate relationship with Nicholas Devine, a writer with a fascination with horror. When he starts to show bizarre personality shifts, she turns to her neighbor, a talented psychologist, to discover the source of these outbursts. The Dark Other was first written sometime in…

One of the most famous ghost stories in literature, The Turn of the Screw earned its place in the annals of influential English novellas not for its qualities as a gothic ghost story, but rather for the many complex and subtle ways the reader can come to opposing conclusions as to tale’s very nature. Are…

Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and the grotesque in human affairs, Des Esseintes, who is really a mouthpiece for Huysmans himself, has estranged himself from 19th-century society and leads a hermit-like existence in an environment of ascetic medievalism. Cloistered in his cottage, alone except for his two silent servants, Des Esseintes reviews…