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"How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens springs to mind about the intimacy. Seems more like a portrayal of a character than Hichens having such hangups though. It seems to me that Machen shows a real disgust at sex (which isn't necessarily repression). I've said it elsewhere but...

Personally I don't see the sexual element in "Whistle". I think his fear of touching it is similar to the way we don't fear the average spider actually hurting us but merely touching it at all. Except he does fear the thing will hurt him.

It's probably too soon for me as I haven't read much (roughly 25 books of fiction, sadly)... but so far... William Hope Hodgson - House On The Borderland William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land Edgar Allan Poe - The Black Cat HP Lovecraft - Rats In The Walls HP Lovecraft - Dreams In The Witch...