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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: It's about time that a collection of Arthur Machen's wonderfully mystical and macabre tales became available again. I can't add much to what other reviewers have written about this book - but will only say that this is a wonderfully masterful collection of some of Machen's best work that belongs on the bookshelf of any self-respecting fan of horror literature. I'm very much looking forward to the second volume of this collection - as well as to the "Hill of Dreams" which is being republished later this year. Machen fans rejoyce!
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Summary: This novel is a must for the fan of imaginative literature.
Review: Some of the best prose I have ever had the intense pleasure of reading. Machen's works, and especially this novel, are essential reading for anyone who appreciates stylish occult horror over the merely grotesque. He was a master craftsman at weaving together ancient Celtic and pre-Celtic legend with the gothic and macabre themes of witchcraft and the paranormal. Machen was one of the great masters of macabre and fantasy literature and it's a crime that his works aren't more available.
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Summary: Invaluable collection
Review: This slim volume collects together various Machen classics including The Great God Pan and The Shining Pyramid. What makes it invaluable, however, is the title story, or rather series of stories. The Three Imposters is constructed somewhat in the style of the anthology horror pictures of the seventies such as 'From Beyond the Grave', with various short stories being strung together using a crude framework of continuing characters. Some of these stories have been available for some time (the Novel of the Black Seal is in Chaosium's own Hastur Cycle Volume) but it's been many years since it's been possible to read them in their correct context. If you've never read the weird and stylish stories of the man who was born in Wales, failed his exams to get into the Royal College of Surgeons, and so went onto to write tales of shape-shifting demons and tentacle-sprouting mutated humans, all way before Lovecraft, then here's your chance to get stuck in.
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