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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

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

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.

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

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... 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.

Controversy:

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

Controversy:

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

The complete lost classic of psychological horror from the master himself, Arthur Machen!

It is a coincidence...

But what happens when one coincidence turns into two? Or three? Or more?

Dyson knows something is strange after a man in spectacles casts aside... Read Full Overview

The complete lost classic of psychological horror from the master himself, Arthur Machen!

It is a coincidence...

But what happens when one coincidence turns into two? Or three? Or more?

Dyson knows something is strange after a man in spectacles casts aside... Read Full Overview

Arthur Machen was a Welsh writer and mystic who was best known for supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. This is one of his most popular titles.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

"We owe a great deal to you," said Mr. Davies politely; "the doctor said so before he left. But have we not all three some farewells to make? I, for my part, propose to say good-by, here, before this picturesque but mouldy residence, to my friend Mr. Burton, dealer in the antique... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

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