Off the lonely coast of the Carolinas there lies an island called Tiger Island in the lee of which during Pirate days a Spanish galleon full of gold was sunk. Toward this island in our modern day there converges a motley collection of people -- a ba...
Because it all seems so improbable-so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library-I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know ...
Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow -- his first published work -- is still remembered as a horror novel of real consequence. But he wrote a great deal of fiction over the succeeding decades -- horror fiction, action-adventure, even stories th...
Popular novel, first published in 1911. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist and writer. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many...
For a moment there was silence in the cross-roads store; then a lank, mud-splashed native arose from behind the stove, shoving his scarred hands deep into the ragged pockets of his trousers. "Young man," he said, harshly, "there's a few things you ca...
Do you desire me to marry him?" asked Miss Castle, quietly. "Let me finish," said her uncle. "Jane," he added, turning on his sister, "if you could avoid sneezing for a few moments, I should be indebted to you." Miss Jane Garcide, a sallow lady of fo...
THE steady flicker of lightning in the southwest continued; the wind freshened, blowing in cooler streaks across acres of rattling rushes and dead marsh-grass. A dull light grew through the scudding clouds, then faded as the mid-day sun went out in t...
WHEN Dingman, the fate game-warden, came panting over the mountain from Spencers to confer with young Byram, road-master at Foxville, he found that youthful official reshingling his barn. The two men observed each other warily for a moment; Byram jin...
This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Eggs of the Silver Moon' is a short story about s...
The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of ...
The Purple Emperor watched me in silence. I cast again, spinning out six feet more of waterproof silk, and, as the line hissed through the air far across the pool, I saw my three flies fall on the water like drifting thistledown. The Purple Emperor s...
Popular novel, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This volume contains Robert William Chambers' novel, "Cardigan" (first published in 1912). It is the first book in the eponymous series that deals with the War of Independence, and explores how it affected the great landed families of nor...
Idle and overrich New York society folk fill the pages of this novel. The heroine, one of the orphaned Seagrave twins, who has inherited dangerous wealth and more dangerous appetites, is thrust at her début into a world of pleasure seekers where enn...
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Excerpt-THE year had been, as everybody knows, a momentous and sinister year for the masculine sex; marriages and births in the United States alone had fallen off nearly eighty per cent.; the establishment of Suffragette Unions in every city, town, a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Popular novel, first published in 1894. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist and writer. He entered the Art Students League at around the age of twenty, studied at the École des Beaux- Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris. On his return to New York, he succeeded i...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Lorraine: A Romance. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using ...
This volume contains Robert William Chambers' 1902 novel, "The Maid-at-Arms". It is a heroic romance that tells the story of George Ormond and Dorothy Varick, two young would-be lovers living in New York during the American Revolution. Ev...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1897 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Purple Emperor' is a short story about rival butt...
Popular novel, first published in 1905. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
An American-born girl, Tressa Norne, has been held in bondage in the Temple of Erlik, an Oriental devil-god of Central Asia. After many years of captivity, Tressa finally escapes to America knowing that a worldwide organization of murderous black mag...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
Popular novel first published in 1912. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer."...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Renowned author Robert W. Chambers dabbled in virtually every literary style under the sun, garnering acclaim from top writers and critics along the way. The story collection A Young Man in a Hurry brings together some of Chambers' most engrossing sh...
Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead" are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and ...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Once a promising up-and-comer in the field of horror fiction, the tumult of World War I prompted Robert W. Chambers to turn his attention to more realistic matters of love, politics, and social clashes. His novel Barbarians follows a torrid romantic ...
A lady to see you, sir, said Farris.Desboro, lying on the sofa, glanced up over his book.A lady?Yes, sir.Well, who is she, Farris?She refused her name, Mr. James.Desboro swung his legs to the carpet and sat up.What kind of lady is she? he asked; a pe...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
According to “The Blue Book of Fiction, A List of Novels Worth Reading Chosen From Many Literatures”, by Hamilton W. Mabie (1911), “The Conspirators” is one of the must-reads of American Literature. Author Robert W. Chambers, born in Brooklyn...
Though his original area of literary interest was horror in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft, world events in the political arena influenced author Robert W. Chambers to tackle more topical subjects. In the thrilling action-adventure tale The Crimson Tide,...
What if you were involved in the theft of one of the legendary jewels of all time -- and you didn't even know it? That's exactly what happens to the innocent damsel at the center of Robert W. Chambers' The Dark Star. She prays for a strong, silent sa...
The short fiction of Robert W. Chambers ranges from the light romantic fantasies to the darkly weird. Through all, his imagination travels across the borders of the known and unknown in nature and the supernatural. This second volume includes his sto...
Popular novel, first published in 1908. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
Former army man Jim Darragh is up against international jewel thieves and American rum-runners in the quest for the famous jewels that were once the property of the Grand Duchess of Estonia, Theodorica. If he can restore them to her, he may win roman...
Popular novel, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
Gender roles in the American Revolutionary War period were not exactly a bastion of progressiveness. However, even during a time when most women were encouraged to shrink from conflict and follow the lead of any man in the vicinity, there were a few ...
The long drought ended with a cloud-burst in the western mountains, which tore a new slide down the flank of Lynx Peak and scarred the Gilded Dome from summit to base. Then storm followed storm, bursting through the mountain-notch and sweeping the ri...
A wartime romance assembled from a jumble of styles. Miss Evelyn Erith lives in a mansion, has a chauffeur and a butler, has a talent for cryptography and works for the government reading other people's mail. Her boss is becoming interested in her. ...
Who dares to read The King in Yellow?A man pursued by a church organist who wants his soul. An artist plagued by repeated sightings of a watchman who looks like a coffin worm. Ghosts, wayward cats, and scientific dabblings with dire consequences. Eac...
Popular novel, first published in 1921. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
A WARM October was followed by a muggy, wet November. The elm leaves turned yellow but did not fall; the ash-trees lighted up the woods like gigantic lanterns set in amber; single branches among the maples slowly crimsoned. As yet the dropping of aco...
Through the open window the spring sunshine fell on Calvert's broad back. Tennant faced the window, smoking reflectively. "I should like to ask a favor," he said; "may I?" "Certainly you may," replied Calvert; "everybody else asks favors three hundre...
Popular novel, first published in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble. When I first saw the sexton he was standing motionless behind a stone. Presently he moved on again, pausing at times, and turning right and left with that nervous, jerky motion that always chil...
POLICE!!! is a volume of xenobiology: cryptozoology. Weird monsters and strange relics from the fossil eras; things which ought never to have walked upon the face of this earth. But they have walked among us. And I have seen them. And I have told ...
Popular novel, first published in 1914. According to Wikipedia: "Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.”...
William Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-sel...
When Stephanie was eighteen and Jim was a novelist of some promise he was able to discourse at length on women and their feminist business, their intrusion into men's affairs, and their fidgety dissatisfaction with a perfectly good civilization. But ...
"For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will and what they will not, -each Is but one link in an eternal chain That none can slip nor break nor over-reach." "Crimson nor yellow roses nor The savour of the mounting sea Are worth the perfum...
BEFORE the members of the Sagamore Fish and Game Association had erected their handsome club-house, and before they had begun to purchase those thousands of acres of forest, mountain, and stream which now belonged to them, a speculative lumberman wit...
I The street is not fashionable, neither is it shabby. It is a pariah among streets-a street without a Quarter. It is generally understood to lie outside the pale of the aristocratic Avenue de l'Observatoire. The students of the Montparnasse Quarter ...
The room was already dark. The high roofs opposite cut off what little remained of the December daylight. The girl drew her chair nearer the window, and choosing a large needle, threaded it, knotting the thread over her fingers. Then she smoothed the...
Classic novel by the American artist and writer, most well known for his collection of weird fiction short stories; The King in Yellow. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later nov...
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About the Author- Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 " December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King In Yellow, published in 1895....
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Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection " The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to ...
A narrative that horrifies and chills the readers. A group of people are out to collect thirty-nine skulls. What follows is a tale of terror, alarm and tragedy. A page-turner, and a highly engrossing work....
The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers. When I first saw the watchman his back was toward me. I looked at him indifferently until he went into the church. Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sni...