The Three Imposters and Other Stories

The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 1 ( Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series)

Paperback, 234 pages

English language

Published June 26, 2001 by Chaosium.

ISBN:
978-1-56882-132-0
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The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen

Machen is a titan of the weird fiction genre, and this is one of his less famous works. It's an episodic story, the result of serialization, with the framing work of two friends in London with differing views on mystery and spirituality getting wrapped up in a strange web of lies and stories involving magic, lurkers in the wild, and other staples of the old weird.

This is a perfectly diverting book, full of creepiness and period frumpery that was perfectly worth the time reading it. And since it's free on Project Gutenberg, anyone with the slightest urge can give it a try.

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  • 19th century fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Horror & ghost stories
  • Short stories
  • Horror - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Horror
  • Horror