Irvine Welsh's "The Acid House" is a collection of short stories, some as short as one page and others as long as 20, with a backdrop of drugs, sex, alcohol and general depravity. His characters are both charming and repulsive, simultaneously causing pity and sympathy in the reader and often times spontaneous bursts of laughter. Welsh's brutal depiction of low-lives in his other works does not disappoint in The Acid House.