The Three Impostors
by Arthur Machen
Publisher: Roberts Bros 1895
ISBN/ASIN: 0486460525
Number of pages: 160
Description:
In a novel that is at once richly terrifying and delightfully funny, a bustling suburb appears normal and cheerful -- but nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces, and one astonishing event follows another, veiling a once-ordinary community in a cloud of mystery.
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