For the first time in one volume, the best stories of one of America's most popular classic authors of the supernatural. Robert William Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895) has long been recognised as a landmark work in the �?eld of the macabre, and has been described as the most ...
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The supernatural stories that make up Robert W. Chambers’s classic piece of weird fiction are tied together by a play that brings madness to all who read it: The King in Yellow. It’s a book that draws readers in with an irresistible yet innocent opening act, then drives them insa...
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 shorter pieces.
"First published in 1895, this collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers is widely regarded as a foundational text of macabre literature. The King in Yellow was a bestseller in its day, and was later praised by horror emeritus H.P. Lovecraft. Its ten stories include "The ...
In The wedding planner, Mary is a successful, work obsessed wedding planner who finally finds a man of her own, or so she thinks. He turns out to be the groom in the biggest wedding of her career. Will she get the job or the guy? in My best friend's wedding, Julianne's best frien...
In the early twentieth century, the trends of rampant alcohol consumption, salacious dance crazes, and frolicking flappers threw traditional sexual mores into a tailspin. In the hilarious romantic farce The Younger Set , author Robert W. Chambers project the anxieties of this tu...
The follow-up to Chambers' remarkably popular bestseller Cardigan , The Maid-at-Arms begins a century after America's Revolutionary War has been settled. The young nation has forgotten the struggles of its birth and is now facing an entirely different-but no less daunting-set ...
An all-new, heartwarming holiday adventure where the hilarious canine speaks for the first time! When Henry the elf flees the North Pole with Santa's sleigh and his magical bag of toys, he crash-lands the precious cargo in a suburban neighborhood tree. But when the bag ends up in...
Fans of H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain series of novels will love Robert W. Chambers' gripping tale The Slayer of Souls . An innocent young girl has fallen into the hands of a marauding horde of evil shamans who worship a god known as Erlik. Will she be able to escape in ti...
Two street-smart cops who have been assigned a new rookie partner, Haven. But Officer Haven has a secret. He looks human, talks and acts human. But he's not. He;s an android with superior intellect and super strength. He's the perfect cop, the cop of the future!
Although younger and smaller, fifth-grader Max is chosen to be the starting goalie for a local lacrosse league, but his lack of confidence drives him to train to the point of obsession until he receives help from a sports psychologist.
A hard-working woman names Catherine becomes the first female blacksmith in her village. Soon, she has her own apprentice, Danny. He is put to the test on a tower high above the village, where he must keep his balance in order to fix a weathervane.
Includes essays by Jonathan Swift, E.M. Forster, Stephen Leacock, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, E.B. White, Hugh MacLennan, Aldous Huxley and others.
The King in Yellow: a play that brings madness to all who read it. Irresistible and insidious, it lures the reader with its innocence and dooms them with its corruption. In a series of interlinked stories, Robert W. Chambers's classic work of weird fiction shows the creeping spre...
Robert W. Chambers' engaging spy tale In Secret brings together a dizzying array of ideas and insights, but somehow weaves them together into a harmonious and wholly unique tapestry. The fast-paced story is brimful with memorable characters-an eccentric cryptographer, a rugged ...
Craving a truly creepy read? Cuddle up with The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, a collection of spine-tingling horror stories that are woven together by a fictional play called The King in Yellow . This legendary literary creation is said to engender madness or ill fortu...