The Black Man of Trinity Churchyard is one of Arthur Machen’s most haunting creations—an entity that drifts through graveyard borders and liminal spaces like a shadow belonging to another world. A figure tall, silent, and impossibly uncanny… the kind of presence that doesn’t just watch you, but reminds you that something else is watching through him. Machen wrote him into The Three Impostors back in 1895, and that eerie, reality-bleeding presence directly inspired the later cosmic dread of H. P.