The Greatest Works of Arthur Machen - Ultimate Horror & Dark Fantasy Collection. Arthur Machen

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      The Greatest Works of Arthur Machen - Ultimate Horror & Dark Fantasy Collection

      The Three Impostors, The Hill of Dreams, The Terror, The Secret Glory, The White People

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       The Three Impostors

       The Hill of Dreams

       The Terror

       The Secret Glory

       The White People

       The Great God Pan

       The Inmost Light

       The Shining Pyramid

       The Red Hand

       The Great Return

       The Bowmen

       The Children of the Pool

       The Bright Boy

       The Happy Children

       Out of the Earth

      The Three Impostors

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       Prologue

       Adventure of the Gold Tiberius.

       The Encounter of the Pavement.

       Novel of the Dark Valley.

       Adventure of the Missing Brother.

       Novel of the Black Seal.

       Incident of the Private Bar.

       The Decorative Imagination.

       Novel of the Iron Maid.

       The Recluse of Bayswater.

       Novel of the White Powder.

       Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell.

       History of the Young Man with Spectacles

       Adventure of the Deserted Residence.

      Prologue

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      "And Mr. Joseph Walters is going to stay the night?" said the smooth clean-shaven man to his companion, an individual not of the most charming appearance, who had chosen to make his ginger-colored mustache merge into a pair of short chin-whiskers.

      The two stood at the hall door, grinning evilly at each other; and presently a girl ran quickly down, the stairs, and joined them. She was quite young, with a quaint and piquant rather than a beautiful face, and her eyes were of a shining hazel. She held a neat paper parcel in one hand, and laughed with her friends.

      "Leave the door open," said the smooth man to the other, as they were going out. "Yes, by——," he went on with an ugly oath. "We'll leave the front door on the jar. He may like to see company, you know."

      The other man looked doubtfully about him. "Is it quite prudent do you think, Davies?" he said, pausing with his hand on the mouldering knocker. "I don't think Lipsius would like it. What do you say, Helen?"

      "I agree with Davies. Davies is an artist, and you are commonplace, Richmond, and a bit of a coward. Let the door stand open, of course. But what a pity Lipsius had to go away! He would have enjoyed himself."

      "Yes," replied the smooth Mr. Davies, "that summons to the west was very hard on the doctor."

      The three passed out, leaving the hall door, cracked and riven with frost and wet, half open, and they stood silent for a moment under the ruinous shelter of the porch.

      "Well," said the girl, "it is done at last. I shall hurry no more on the track of the young man with spectacles."

      "We owe a great deal to you," said Mr. Davies politely; "the doctor said so before he left. But have we not all three some farewells to make? I, for my part, propose to say good-by, here, before this picturesque but mouldy residence, to my friend Mr. Burton, dealer in the antique and curious," and the man lifted his hat with an exaggerated bow.

      "And I," said Richmond, "bid adieu to Mr. Wilkins, the private secretary, whose company has, I confess, become a little tedious."

      "Farewell to Miss Lally, and to Miss Leicester also," said the girl, making as she spoke a delicious courtesy. "Farewell to all occult adventure; the farce is played."

      Mr.