Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Arthur Machen wich are The Three Impostors and The Terror. Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novellas and short stories has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Arthur Machen's work is acclaimed worldwide and has already been recognized by such big names as H. P. Locecraf, Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges. Novels selected for this book: - The Three Impostors. - The Terror.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by British writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's Keynote Series. It was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-eighth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1972. The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: "the young man with spectacles". (wikipedia.org)

Reproduction of the original: The House of Souls by Arthur Machen

The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later, the novel describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art and history. The Hill of Dreams was little noticed on its publication in 1907 save in a glowing review by Alfred Douglas. It was actually written between 1895 and 1897 and has elements of the style of the decadent and aesthetic movement of the period, seen through Machen's own mystical preoccupations. (wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents Published by VM eBook CHAPTER I THE RUMOUR OF THE MARVELLOUS CHAPTER II ODOURS OF PARADISE CHAPTER III A SECRET IN A SECRET PLACE CHAPTER IV THE RINGING OF THE BELL CHAPTER V THE ROSE OF FIRE CHAPTER VI OLWEN'S DREAM CHAPTER VII THE MASS OF THE SANGRAAL