Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of “The King In Yellow”. This is a collection of the first half of this work of short stories which have an eerie, other-worldly feel to it; but the stories in the second half are essentially love stories, strongly coloured by the author’s life as an artist in France.

The King in Yellow

A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic of supernatural fiction, out in time for Christmas.

The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition

A milestone of American supernatural fiction from the author who has been hailed as the link between Poe and Stephen King. 12 gripping stories, with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.

The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

The Yellow Sign

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) nació en Brooklyn en una familia de terratenientes de origen escocés. Estudió en el New York Art Student’s League y en 1886 se trasladó a París, donde convivió con la bohemia artística del fin de siglo. Cuando Chambers regresa a Nueva York, su vocación de ilustrador cede a su pasión por contar historias y publica un primer libro, «In the Quarter» (1894), sobre sus experiencias en París. Le seguirá un año después una colección de relatos, El Rey de Amarillo, que le convierte en un maestro indiscutible del moderno cuento de terror, capaz de aportar una visión del mal, el horror y lo sobrenatural, alejada por completo del monstruo y el fantasma gótico clásico. En El Rey de Amarillo. Relatos macabros y terroríficos –título que hace referencia a una obra imaginaria, «El Rey de Amarillo», cuya lectura provoca estupor, locura y tragedia espectral, y de la que el Necronomicón lovecraftiano es deudor– hemos seleccionado los cinco relatos de corte fantástico de la colección original (dejando de lado los que no lo son): La máscara, En el Pasaje del Dragón, El Reparador de Reputaciones, La demoiselle d’Ys y, el más famoso, El Signo Amarillo –obra maestra del cuento macabro de suspense, con un final escalofriante– . El volumen se completa con El Creador de Lunas y Una velada placentera, procedentes de «The Maker of Moons» (1896); y El Emperador Púrpura, El Mensajero y La Llave del Dolor, de «The Mystery of Choice» (1897). En estos relatos, precursores de los Mitos de Chtulhu, se respira una atmósfera eminentemente pesadillesca, alucinatoria y onírica. El Rey de Amarillo. Relatos macabros y terroríficos invoca un mundo de caos y perdición, fascinante y repugnante al tiempo, que nos recuerda algunas obras de Meyrink e incluso del propio Kafka.

Relatos macabros y terroríficos

El Rey de Amarillo

Il re giallo

"Oh, thou who burn'st in heart for those who burnIn Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn;How long be crying—'Mercy on them.' God!Why, who art thou to teach and He to learn?"In the Church of St. Barnabé vespers were over; the clergy left the altar; the little choir-boys flocked across the chancel and settled in the stalls. A Suisse in rich uniform marched down the south aisle, sounding his staff at every fourth step on the stone pavement; behind him came that eloquent preacher and good man, Monseigneur C——.

In the Court of the Dragon

The Mask

El Rey de Amarillo: relatos macabros y terroríficos

Lon Milo DuQuette

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 the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate. Part I – The Repairer of Reputations The year is 1895, and you’ve just picked up a new book describing life in New York City 25 years in the future … a future United States that is prosperous, and the Federal government has evolved into a mild military dictatorship; a future where suicide is institutionalized, and publicly funded ‘Lethal Chambers’ are constructed in all large cities to humanely terminate the existence of those sad and unproductive citizens for whom life has become intolerable, a future in which two very determined conspirators will risk everything to place the rightful King of America on his throne. Sound like a disturbing vision? The madness has begun. This is the book that inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection

The Repairer of Reputations

Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

Robert E. Howard

Virginia Woolf

Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry James

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

H. G. Wells

Lafcadio Hearn

H. P. Lovecraft

Aleister Crowley

Algernon Blackwood

F. Marion Crawford

Rudyard Kipling

Edith Wharton

E. F. Benson

O. Henry

Walter Scott

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Oscar Wilde

Clark Ashton Smith

Guy de Maupassant

Wilkie Collins

Willa Cather

Bram Stoker

Anatole France

W. W. Jacobs

Nathaniel Hawthorne

John Buchan

Margaret Oliphant

Edith Nesbit

Marjorie Bowen

Edward Lucas White

Elizabeth Gaskell

Oliver Onions

M. R. James

Arthur Machen

William Hope Hodgson

Nikolai Gogol

Ambrose Bierce

M. P. Shiel

Mark Twain

Franz Kafka

Edgar Allan Poe

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

L. P. Hartley

Washington Irving

Saki

Lord Dunsany

Leonid Andreyev

Amelia B. Edwards

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Richard Connell

Vernon Lee

Rebecca Harding Davis

W. F. Harvey

Robert Hichens

Walter De La Mare

Violet Hunt

John Metcalfe

A. M. Burrage

Cynthia Asquith

Myla Jo Closser

Vincent O’Sullivan

H. Russell Wakefield

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be aware that this book includes a big amount of stories that appear for the first time in digital print.

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories (KathartikaTM Classics)

Montague Rhodes James

Osie Turner

Tod Robbins

“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”; “The Confessions of Constantine,” which drives its readers into a homicidal rage—these accursed books are the subject of this collection of olden tales. Table of Contents: The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James The White People by Arthur Machen The Devil in Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) by Algernon Blackwood P.’s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Innmost Light by Arthur Machen The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne For Art’s Sake by Tod Robbins Appendix: In Search of the Real Necronomicon by Osie Turner

The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books

Datant de 1895, Le Roi en jaune est un recueil américain de dix nouvelles mêlant fantastique, horreur et roman policier. Les quatre premières nouvelles du recueil font référence à une mystérieuse pièce de théâtre qui crée un tel choc esthétique aux yeux des spectateurs qu'ils deviennent fous et se suicident. Atmosphère oppressante, personnages étranges, spectres inquiétants, chaque nouvelle offre son lot d’effroi et de mystère. Ce texte aussi troublant qu'étonnant de modernité, dans la droite lignée d’un Edgar Allan Poe, a inspiré de grands noms comme Lovecraft, mais aussi la nouvelle série américaine à succès : True Detective écrite par l'auteur Nic Pizzolatto avec l'acteur star Matthew McConaughey. La série est actuellement diffusée sur OCS et sera diffusée sur Canal + au premier semestre 2015. Elle cartonne déjà dans le monde entier. La maison indépendente Malpertuis a publié ce texte en 2009.

Le Roi en jaune

More than 40 terrifying tales from the masters of cosmic horror. Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this volume. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares. This collection includes the brilliant and horrifying tales from: * H. P. Lovecraft * Robert E. Howard * Arthur Machen * Lafcadio Hearn * Robert W. Chambers

Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre

The Necronomicon

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 tumultuous early twentieth century onto an older generation, mercilessly lambasting the pretensions and hang-ups of the Victorian era.

The Younger Set

Sarı Kral Öyküleri

Keltainen kuningas

William Morris

George MacDonald

Abraham Merritt

Ernest Bramah

G. G. Pendarves

Epic romances, fearsome dragons and alien worlds lie between the pages of this volume. Containing more than 35 stories from the early masters of fantasy literature, the narratives here transport the reader to alternate worlds where magic abounds, cosmic terrors lie around the corner and intrepid heroes fight for justice. Drawing inspiration from Norse, Japanese and Chinese mythology as well as from traditional fairytales and modern fears, the authors collected here span the breadth of the genre. Including tales from William Morris, H. G. Wells, Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft amongst others, they demonstrate the plethora of imaginative literature that was written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these tales were foundational works, bringing ideas of the supernatural into the mainstream, and through their efforts creating entirely new genres. Before Tolkien, there were many writers embracing the realm of fantastic fiction. The man responsible for its origin was George MacDonald (1824-1905), a Calvinist minister and Celtic scholar, who wrote the first true fantasy novel. He was followed by a number of imaginative successors at the end of the 19th century, including H. G. Wells, Arthur Machen, and Ernest Bramah. After the end of World War I, the pulp magazines opened up the genre to a new generation of writers - particularly H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard - who provided exciting, magical and horrifying tales that fascinated a multitude of readers. By the outbreak of World War II, the outlines of the fantasy genre had been sketched out by these pioneers, and an entirely new type of fiction had been created. This collection includes stories by: Robert E. Howard H. P. Lovecraft G. G. Pendarves H. G. Wells William Morris Lafcadio Hearn Abraham Merritt Arthur Machen Ernest Bramah Robert W. Chambers George MacDonald

The Classic Fantasy Collection

Robert W. Chambers

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