Search Worlds Without End

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood in a cloud of mystery and fear.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen's famous collection of "weird tales" — a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. Rich with terror, adventure, satire, deception, and dreamlike fantasy, it is a classic of occult literature written by a stylistic master.

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (The White People and Other Tales) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• 1 - The Red Hand - [Dyson] - (1895) - novelette
• 29 - Ornaments in Jade - (1924) - collection
• 30 - The Rose Garden - (1908) - short story
• 33 - The Turanians - (1924) - short story
• 36 - The Idealist - (1924) - short story
• 40 - Witchcraft - (1924) - short story
• 43 - The Ceremony - (1897) - short story
• 46 - Psychology - (1897) - short story
• 49 - Torture - (1924) - short story
• 53 - Midsummer - (1924) - short story
• 56 - Nature - (1908) - short fiction (variant of The Splendid Holiday)
• 59 - The Holy Things - (1908) - short story
• 62 - The White People - (1904) - novelette
• 99 - A Fragment of Life - (1904) - novella
• 176 - The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War - (1915) - collection
• 177 - Introduction (The Angels of Mons) - (1915) - essay
• 184 - The Bowmen - (1914) - short story
• 188 - The Soldiers' Rest - (1914) - short story
• 192 - The Monstrance - (1915) - short story
• 196 - The Dazzling Light - (1915) - short story
• 200 - The Great Return - (1915) - novelette
• 233 - Out of the Earth - (1915) - short story
• 240 - The Coming of the Terror - (1917) - short story
• 280 - The Happy Children - (1920) - short story

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (The Terror and Other Stories) - (2005) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• 1 - The Terror - (1916) - novella
• 110 - The Lost Club - (1890) - short story
• 118 - Munitions of War - (1926) - short story
• 122 - The Islington Mystery - (1927) - short story
• 137 - Johnny Double - (1928) - short story
• 145 - The Cosy Room - non-genre - (1929) - short story
• 153 - Opening the Door - (1931) - short story
• 169 - The Children of the Pool - (1936) - short story
• 193 - The Bright Boy - (1936) - novelette
• 229 - Out of the Picture - (1936) - novelette
• 259 - Change - (1936) - short story
• 274 - The Dover Road - (1936) - novelette
• 310 - Ritual - (1937) - short story
• 316 - The Literature of Occultism - (1899) - essay