The Three Impostors

by Arthur Machen, Trevor Blake (Text by)

Overview

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 high-strung nervous organizations. It ought to not be put into the hands of children or young women." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 January 1896.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944651350
Publisher:	127 House
Publication date:	10/14/2024
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.92(d)

About the Author

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh mystic and author. Born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, he was raised in Monmouthshire in a prominent family of clergymen. He developed an early interest in alchemy and other occult matters, and obtained a classical education at Hereford Cathedral School. He moved to London, where he failed to gain admittance to medical school and soon focused on his literary interests. Working as a tutor, he wrote in the evening and published his first poem, “Eleusinia,” in 1881. A novel, The Anatomy of Tobacco (1884), soon followed, launching his career as a professional writer. Machen made a name for himself as a frequent contributor to London literary magazines and achieved his first major success with the 1894 novella The Great God Pan. Following his wife’s death from cancer in 1899, he briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and began conducting research on Celtic Christianity, the legend of the Holy Grail, and the stories of King Arthur. In 1922, after a decade of working as a journalist for the Evening News, he published The Secret Glory—a story of the Grail—to popular and critical acclaim. This marked the highpoint of his career as a pioneering author of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction whose work has been admired and praised by William Butler Yeats, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Stephen King.