The Three Impostors, or, The Transmut..., Arthur Machen
The Three Impostors, or, The Transmut..., Arthur Machen
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The Three Impostors, or, The Transmutations

Author: Arthur Machen

Narrator: Mike Cuellar

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Arthur Machen

Published: 08/24/2023


Synopsis

Mssrs Phillips and Dyson continually run across different people who all seem to be on the lookout for the same person. Who is he? What do they want with him? And what is the connection to the small golden coin that came into Mr Dyson's possession?

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on April 23, 2023

My complete review of The Three Imposters is published at Before We Go Blog. “I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.” The Three Imposters is Arthur Machen's best work and a classic of Gothic horror. As the novel opens, we are introduced to the three imposters, two......more

Goodreads review by Merl on February 16, 2020

Machen's masterpiece, surely. All of the usual Machen ingredients are there: the eerie little stories, the twists and turns, the velvet-dark imagination combined with a deceptive lightness of style. And of course the intensely vivid descriptions of London, from street-crossings on The Strand to myst......more

Goodreads review by Yórgos on March 25, 2019

Arthur Machen is the master of slow building dread and eerie atmosphere. I think that the following passage is a great example of the previous statement. "I knew, I thought, if I knew what there were to dread, I could guard against it; but here, in this lonely house, shut in on all sides by the olde......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 28, 2010

Every October, just before Halloween, I scan my shelves for some good fantasy/horror -- usually something from Dover Publications, who seem to have a lock on the field. This year, I read Three Impostors by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Although I finished the book just minutes ago, my mind is stil......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on February 15, 2018

This is a strange one, and whilst very short it took me a while to get through because the writing was quite small and the language was quite convoluted at times. The story follows two gentlemen in London, who travel around and meet other people who tell them various different stories which all becom......more