"The Three Imposters", by Arthur Machen

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0:00:00 Prologue
0:07:24 Adventure of the Gold Tiberius
0:25:55 The Encounter of the Pavement
0:35:42 Novel of the Dark Valley
1:15:44 Adventure of the Missing Brother
1:37:16 Novel of the Black Seal
3:13:33 Incident of the Private Bar
3:38:01 The Decorative Imagination
3:43:06 Novel of the Iron Maid
3:56:12 The Recluse of Bayswater
4:07:51 Novel of the White Powder
4:52:26 Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell
5:06:45 History of the Young Man with Spectacles
5:39:28 Adventure of the Deserted Residence
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The pictures used are

Chapter 1: a Georgian colonial mansion

Chapter 2: an aureus with the effigy of Tiberius, by cgb and used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).

Chapter 3: a Louis Levy postcard from about 1904 showing Oxford Circus looking east towards New Oxford Street. The very early motor bus is turning right into New Oxford Street from Regent Street and an officer from Vine Street police station is directing traffic. There is also an officer on the pavement centre right on a 'Fixed Point', these were locations where citizens knew that they could find a Police Constable. In Dickens's Dictionary of London (1888) this fixed point's location is described " Oxford Street-Circus, corner of Swallow Street, south side of Oxford Street, west of Regent Street.

Chapter 4: "A view from Rocky Mountain National Park" by rosskevin756, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 5: Leicester Square about 1880, looking north east.

Chapter 6: "Welsh countryside" by Brian Smithson: The cloud-topped mountains of Wales - as seen from Bodnant Gardens. Used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).

Chapter 7: "Vizzini, Catania, Sicily, Italy" by trolvag, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).

Chapter 8: the Strand, looking west, circa 1886.

Chapter 9: a copper engraving showing several methods used by the inquisition.

Chapter 10: Westbourne Hall in Bayswater, London, circa 1860.

Chapter 11: the folded-out engraving showing witches' sabbat, by Laurent Bordelon (1710), from the University of Glasgow Library, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 12: a Victorian illustration of a child "fetching the dinner beer".

Chapter 13: the huntsman and hounds exiting Powderham castle for a hunt, taken by Owain.davies, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en).

Chapter 14: Kilnwick Percy Hall, Pocklington by Stephen Richards, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en).

To follow along: https://gutenberg.org/files/35517/35517-h/35517-h.htm

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