Excerpt from The Door of the Unreal A man of modesty cannot but feel difiident in making his bow to another public thousands of miles across the sea, cousins and Allies though they be, especially when as well he is breaking entirely new ground in fiction, and essaying a sub ject of strange interest and peculiar fascination as yet untouched, so far as he is aware, by any other weaver of tales - romantic almost beyond the bounds of human credulity. I need, therefore, hardly say what a pleasure it is to me to cross the Atlantic in print, if not in person. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.