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The Thin Veil of London

The Thin Veil of London

A most unusual walk around the lesser-known corners of Holborn and Bloomsbury, interwoven with the mysteries of Arthur Machen (1863-1947), penniless flâneur and pioneer of folk horror. Booking for Monday 25 May 2026.

Unburied Corner of London

The Unburied Corner of London

A delve into the layers of history around and under the old Museum of London, the 1970s building on London Wall: the stories, buildings, archaeology, and people whose lives it has touched. Booking for Monday 1 June 2026.

Doing The Lambeth Walk (Oi!)

Doin’ The Lambeth Walk (Oi!)

Historical entities have been sighted in the old village of Lambeth. Are they ghosts? Visions? Or intruders through a crack in time? Your guides have been assigned.

Silhouette of London cityscape at sunset with famous historical and literary figures at the bottom, including Reverend Harold Davidson, St Pancras, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Mary Wollstonecraft, and the goddess Shitala.

The Pantheon of Pancras

A walk around the old Parish of St Pancras, home to outsiders who have disrupted time, space, and the way we see the world, and the old and new gods that they have deemed worthy of worship. Booking for (Part 1) Monday 8 and (Part 2) Monday 15 June 2026.

Drury Lane

Drury Lane

The rich cultural history of one of London’s most colourful, creative and dangerous quarters, with Alice Merivale as Nell Gwyn. A bawdy, boozy bacchanal, bursting with obscure factlets, dramatic sweeps of history, dark mysteriousness, musical protrusions and theatrical surprises.

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Brentford. A daytime scene of boats docked alongside an industrial building and colourful modern buildings in an urban canal area.

Go noe more to Brainford

Westward, to the old town of Brentford: more ancient than London; on occasion more noisome. Tranquil rivers, art deco wonders, proper pubs, and a poignant history of transience and travel. Booking for Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June 2026.

Black and white photograph of Rendlesham Forest with tall trees and a dirt pathway in the center.

Rendlesham

A coach trip from London to Rendlesham Forest with audio commentary, pub lunch and full guided tour of the mysterious 1980 UFO sightings. An experience taking you to the silent beauty of the Suffolk woods, from the present day to the height of the Cold War, from the everyday to the uncanny. Booking for Tuesday 29 December 2026.

Primrose Hill

By A Long Chalk

The environs and history of Chalk Farm and Primrose Hill, through the lens of ‘pace layers’, Stewart Brand’s model for the ever-interacting layers of civilisation, to make sense of steam trains and secret vaults, geology and gin, duels and druids, tunnels, taverns and towpaths.

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Title screen for Bluebird, an original audio drama from Minimum Labyrinth, displaying a rural fenland landscape with dark clouds.

Bluebird

A burglar shot dead; an unaccountable tragedy on the train tracks; and the remnants of Cold War psychological experiments. A writer and his student probe the curious history of a remote English village. A six-hour, full-cast audio drama. Free to listen.

A nude woman with long hair, holding a flaming heart with an arrow through it, and balancing a sphere on her head, walking on a yellow-green surface. An alchemic artwork.

The Chymical Wedding

An unabridged six-hour audiobook of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz with music by Rich. A story of a very strange wedding, in a very strange castle, dripping with allegory, symbolism, and dazzling ceremony.

Cover art for 'A Fragment of Life,' an audio drama adaptation by Minimum Labyrinth, featuring a dark background with a face formed by smoke or light.

A Fragment of Life

A young married couple notice weird, dark forces crowding around their banal 1890s suburban existence. Are there more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in their philosophy? A three-hour, full-cast audio drama, adapted from Arthur Machen’s novel. Free to listen.

An original hardback copy of the Reverend Thomas Hampole's A London Walk: Meditations in the Streets of the Metropolis (1853)

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Listen to our reading of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol; Arthur Machen’s ‘N’, a mysterious short story from 1934; and Rich Cochrane’s ‘Blackwood House’, a short ghost story inspired by Algernon Blackwood. Plus musical playlists from the walks.

Black and white image of a brick wall with a stone plaque and a carved stone face above it. The plaque has an inscription and the face depicts a bearded man with a serious expression. Overlaid text reads 'the Grey Soul of London' and 'An Audio Guided Walk by Minimum Labyrinth'.

The Grey Soul of London

An audio guided tour across the worn and hollowed stones of Angel and Clerkenwell, places haunted by the writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947). Listen via audiobook retailers and subscription services.

The doomed young man in spectacles running down a narrow urban street in Clerkenwell, surrounded by parked cars and multi-storey buildings.

Miscellanea

Interviews and radio appearances.

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The Dagenham Idol. A dark, round, cracked wooden effigy. One of the oldest representations of a human, or possibly a god, found in Britain.

Pagan London

A twelve-part documentary film series exploring London’s historical, mythical and contemporary pagan connections, in collaboration with the award-winning film-maker Jeremiah Quinn.

Thomas de Quincey and the young friend, Ann, who he lost on the streets of London.

For Ann

A rock video by Phil O’Donnell inspired by Confessions of an Opium Eater. A poignant tale of love and loss in London. Thomas de Quincey, teenage, penniless, and losing his health as a prelude to his later drug addiction, is befriended by a young girl working as a prostitute.

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The Thin Veil of London

Our companion book (paperback, 140pp) expands upon the stories we explore on the walk, and plunges into the deep well of philosophies, theories and wild beliefs that Machen draws on.

Photo of two books, one closed and one open, on a dark surface. The closed book is titled 'London Barroque' with a dark cover featuring a portrait. The open book displays a black-and-white illustration of a woman framed in an ornate border, along with text.

London Baroque

A collection of stories that wander uninvited through seventeenth-century London, weaving in and out of fact and fiction, processional arches, witch-woods, moon-prisons, West End squares and other geometries, in a hunt for Baroque thought. First hardback edition sold out. Second paperback edition available (304pp).

Four copies of a book titled "Doing the Lambeth Walk: London Adventures" by Robert Kingham, arranged on a wooden surface.

Doing the Lambeth Walk

The companion book to the walk that you can order direct from The Three Impostors publishers. Fourth in the series of London Adventures which includes books by Iain Sinclair, Xiaolu Guo, Catherine Fisher, John Rogers and Andrew Kötting.