A review by jake_
The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.5

I enjoyed reading this mosaic novel, although it is hard to argue that everything came together - the impression I got was that the individual stories were written first, and the frame story manufactured to create a 'novel'. The content is typical Arthur Machen; there are some highlight moments of decadence, pensive landscape description and psychogeography, and there are also some less enigmatic moments of proto-Lovecraftian slime horror. As I said, I did enjoy reading it, but it was barely cohesive, and I would maintain that the focused and non-Lovecraftian The Hill of Dreams is the superior Machen work.