Author:Robert William Chambers

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Robert William Chambers (1865–1933)

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Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer, best known for his book of short stories The King in Yellow (1895), the first half of which contains highly regarded supernatural fiction.

Robert William Chambers

Works

• In the Quarter (1894)
• The King in Yellow (1895) short stories (transcription project)
  • The Repairer of Reputations
  • The Mask
  • In the Court of the Dragon
  • The Yellow Sign
  • The Demoiselle d'Ys
  • The Prophets' Paradise
  • The Street of the Four Winds
  • The Street of the First Shell
  • The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
  • Rue Barrée
• The Maker of Moons (collection) (1896) (external scan)
  • The Maker of Moons • (1896)
  • The Silent Land
  • The Black Water • (1896)
  • In The Name of the Most High
  • The Boy's Sister
  • The Crime
  • A Pleasant Evening
  • The Man at the Next Table
• The Mystery of Choice (1896)
  • The Purple Emperor
  • Pompe Funèbre
  • The Messenger
  • The White Shadow
  • Passeur
  • The Key to Grief
  • A Matter of Interest
  • Envoi
• Lorraine (1897)
• Ashes of Empire (1898)
• Collector of the Porte (1898)
• Cardigan (1901)
• In Search of the Unknown (1904)
• The Reckoning (1905)
• The Tracer of Lost Persons (1906)
• The Tree of Heaven (1907) (collection) Illus. by Henry Hutt, A. B. Wenzell and Howard Chandler Christy
  • The Carpet of Belshazzar
  • The Sign of Venus
  • The Case of Mr. Helmer
  • The Tree of Dreams
  • The Bridal Pair
  • Ex Curia
  • The Golden Pool
  • Out of the Depths
  • The Swastika
  • The Ghost of Chance • (1895)
• The Green Mouse (1907)
• The Common Law (1911)
• Blue-Bird Weather (1912) Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
• The Gay Rebellion (1913)
• Quick Action (1914)
• Athalie (1915)
• Who goes There! (1915)
• Police!!! (1915)
• The Girl Philippa (1916)
• The Moonlit Way (1919)
• The Slayer of Souls (1920)
• The Talkers (1923)
• The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (2001, ed. S. T. Joshi) collection of his horror and fantasy tales
• The Red Republic

Works from magazines

• "The Maker of Moons" in English Illustrated, Vol 15, 1896
• "The Pickets" in McClure's Magazine, 1896
• "The Black Water" in English Illustrated, Vol 15, 1896
• "Yo Espero" in Scribner's Magazine, 1897
• ' "Passeur!" ' in English Illustrated, Vol 18, 1897-98
• "Collector of the Porte" in English Illustrated, Vol 20, 1898-99
• "The Harbour-Master" (novelette) in English Illustrated, Vol 22, 1899
• "A Young Man in a Hurry" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "Trouble for Two" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "The Case of Mr. Helmer" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "Non-combatants" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "Point Shooting" (1904 Aug, Harper's) (ar)
• "Curiosities of Angling" (1904 Aug, Harper's) (ar)
• "Shot Out" (1904 Aug, Harper's) (ar)
• "The Tree of Heaven" (1904 Aug, Harper's Weekly) (ss)
• "The Ghost of Chance" (1905 Aug, Everybody's) (ss)
• "The Younger Set" (1907, Appleton's) (6-part novella)
• "Romance" in Collier's Magazine, 1908
• "The Girl Phillippa" (1915 Dec, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• The Man They Hanged (1925 Dec, Everybody's's) (serial)

Works about Chambers

• "Chambers, Robert William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)