The Three Impostors

About this book

In the streets of London, three apparently chance encounters lead to stories of vanished men, sinister experiments and discoveries that should have remained buried. Each stranger seems to know something about an elusive young man, yet their stories resist fitting neatly together.

Arthur Machen entwines several narratives, including The Novel of the Black Seal and The Novel of the White Powder, within a pursuit conducted by figures whose identities are deeply suspect. Strange survivals and dangerous transformations haunt the city just beyond its respectable facades. The effect is of wandering into an ordinary conversation and finding the door to a much older horror.