Arthur Machen 3 hr 4 min read

In gaslit London, three sinister conspirators spin a web of interlocking tales to lure their prey, stories of secret cults, dark valleys, and a terrible white powder, toward a hidden doom.

Arthur Machen's 1895 novel is a landmark of weird and horror fiction. Eerie, decadent, superbly told. Read it for a masterwork of the macabre, a framework of nested horror stories (including the famous 'Novel of the Black Seal' and 'White Powder') that helped define modern supernatural terror and deeply influenced Lovecraft.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 4 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).