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Arthur Machen was a Welsh writer and mystic who was best known for supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.

The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, in an edition true to the 1895 original. Gathered also for the first time are selected bibliographies, reviews, and original annotations.

"This sort of a book is calculated to do great harm to immature readers or those with... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors is a horror novel written by Arthur Machen. The book centers around three members of a secret society and is told in different episodes featuring several weird tales. Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic best known for his popular horror, supernatural,... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen. Consisting of interwoven stories involving the title characters, The Three Impostors was compared to the prose style of Robert Louis Stevenson on publication. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication,... Read Full Overview

"And Mr. Joseph Walters is going to stay the night?" said the smooth clean-shaven man to his companion, an individual not of the most charming appearance, who had chosen to make his ginger-colored mustache merge into a pair of short chin-whiskers.

A dangerous secret society. A series of bizarre tales. The terrifying link between modern London and ancient Roman horrors.

The Three Impostors is one of Arthur Machen's most intricate and chilling works, a mosaic-like... Read Full Overview

Arthur Machen, pseudonym of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, (born March 3, 1863, Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Eng.--died Dec. 15, 1947, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction.

Machen's work was deeply influenced... Read Full Overview

First published in the height of the yellow nineties and in the shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors(1895) remains a relatively obscure text even as Machen receives increasing attention for his contributions to supernatural horror, the weird,... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in the Bodley Head's Keynote Series.

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Publisher John Lane, wary of the atmosphere following the trial of Oscar Wilde, asked... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen. Consisting of interwoven stories involving the title characters, The Three Impostors was compared to the prose style of Robert Louis Stevenson on publication. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication,... Read Full Overview

On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen. The novel incorporates several inset weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three imposters... Read Full Overview

The Three Impostors is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Machen, a Welsh author and mystic. Originally published in 1895, the book is a collection of interconnected stories that revolve around a group of three mysterious individuals who are believed to be impostors... Read Full Overview

"It is all more strange than I fancied," he said at last. "It was queer enough what I saw; a man is sauntering along a quiet, sober, everyday London street, a street of grey houses and blank walls, and there, for a moment, a veil seems drawn aside, and the... Read Full Overview