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 (external scan)
  • 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, English Illustrated)
  • The Silent Land
  • The Black Water
  • 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)
• 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

Individual short stories

• "The Black Water" in English Illustrated, Vol 15, 1896
• "The Case of Mr. Helmer" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "Collector of the Porte" in English Illustrated, Vol 20, 1898-99
• "The Maker of Moons" in English Illustrated, Vol 15, 1896
• "Non-combatants" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• ' "Passeur!" ' in English Illustrated, Vol 18, 1897-98
• "The Pickets" in McClure's Magazine, 1896
• "Romance" in Collier's Magazine, 1908
• "Trouble for Two" in Harper's Magazine, 1904
• "A Young Man in a Hurry" in Harper's Magazine, 1904

Works about Chambers

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