Arthur Machen,
The Three Impostors; or The Transmutations…
“ All phases of life interest him, since he has entered into more of them that most men. We observe the same quality in Swift, the most virulent of satirists, and fundamentally the tenderest of humanitarians. His style approaches the gift of music. . . Machen is of that small group of Coleridge, De Quincy, Sir Thomas Browne, Poe and Mallory—a group where each is a master. ”
