Author:Robert William Chambers
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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. |
Works[edit]
- In the Quarter (1894)
- The King in Yellow (1895) short stories (external scan)
- 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)
- 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
Novellas and short stories from magazines[edit]
- "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
- "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 Man They Hanged" (1925 Dec, Everybody's's) (ss)
Works about Chambers[edit]
- "Chambers, Robert William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1933, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.