Robert W Chambers
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Robert W. Chanbers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is "The Prophets' Paradise," a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuring personifications of Love and Truth, the story's structure has a palindrome-like quality with internal repetition. Romantic in tone and ambiguous in theme, "The Prophets' Paradise" is one of Chambers'...
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What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian glacier? From the collection In Search of the Unknown comes a chilling tale of the things nature can do when nobody's watching.
Robert W. Chambers was a pioneer of weird fiction, and influenced the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. In Search of the Unknown was originally released in 1904, this story includes chapters 6-8.
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"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a 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 has been described by critics as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations",...
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"For there be divers sorts of death-some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit."-"An Inhabitant of Carcosa," by Ambrose Bierce
"'Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa.'"-"An Inhabitant of Carcosa," by Ambrose Bierce
"Strange is the night where black stars rise, / And strange moons circle through the skies / But stranger still is / Lost Carcosa"- Verse 2 "Cassilda's Song" by Robert W. Chambers
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6) Operator 13
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but obtaining that knowledge is even more dangerous for a Civil War spy. Marion Davies portrays the Union agent codenamed Operator 13, whose work behind enemy lines grows more precarious when she violates the first rule of espionage: never fall in love with the enemy"--Container.
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From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public ... In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers.
Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk," Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry's masterful Christmastime
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