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<p><strong>The Three Impostors</strong>; <em>or, The Transmutations</em> is an episodic horror novel by Welsh writer Arthur Machen.</p> <p>The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites.</p> <p>The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of Londonーrelating the aforementioned weird tales in the processーas they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: "the young man with spectacles".</p> <p>Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is callous, cruel; you might say, evil.</p> <p>One of them, a young woman described as piquant rather than beautiful with eyes of a shining hazel, carries a neatly wrapped parcel. She says it is for the doctor's museum. It ...楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る