The Three Impostors
The Transmutations
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Two idlers in London are sauntering in the streets when they pick up a coin dropped by a fleeing man. They keep meeting three persons, each time in a different disguise, who recount lurid tales. They seem to be looking for a spectacled man who regrets working with them, and has run away with a valuable coin …
This novel is a Gothic horror classic, and takes the form of an episodic novel, with each chapter containing a story recounted by one of the three impostors. It contains “Novel of the Black Seal” and “Novel of the White Powder,” popular stories which have been widely anthologized.
Customer Reviews
Abrupt.
The mystery introduced in the beginning is just seductive enough to lure the reader through the rest of the sordid tale, and the horror with which we are presented is properly set up. However, the tale ends so abruptly as to leave one wondering whether this was indeed the intended ending. It was a curious read, and one I am glad to have finished, though I wish for a more profound ending and am disappointed at having been denied it.