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THE TRACER OF LOST PERSONS "Keen & Co. are prepared to locate the whereabouts of anybody on earth. No charges will be made unless the person searched for is found..." But what if you are looking for someone who doesn't exist? Say, the perfect woman of your dreams. Or what if you are looking for someone who has been dead for centuries? ... an Egyptian princess who lies in suspended animation. Or perhaps you are a famous artist who has been rendering the "ideal" woman for so long that you have now fallen in love with your own epitome of beauty. Can Westrel Keen, the Tracer of Lost Persons, find that ideal...? THE TREE OF HEAVEN "There was nothing particularly remarkable about the dinner; it was the usual excellent affair one might expect; the wines perfect, the service flawless..." The host has studied in the ways of the Eastern adept. Now, with his friends about him, he begins to predict their futures. One man will "uproot a Tree of Dreams but not the dream," and one has a good-natured ghost following him about. One of them, a doctor, is about to learn a stranger truth than is locked up among the molecules in his laboratory, while the young officer is destined to anchor "in the Port of the Golden Pool." They may not understand these predictions, but each of their fates await them ...
First published in 1895, "The King in Yellow" is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers for which the author is best known. The title of the collection refers to a fictional forbidden play referenced in the first four of the stories of the collection which induces its readers to madness. The remainder of the stories of this volume have a less eerie tone and are written in the romantic fiction style common to Chambers' later work. "The King in Yellow" is a prominent example of the type of weird fiction which would become increasingly popular near the end of 19th and first part of the 20th century. It is specifically cited as a prominent influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. The ten stories which comprise this volume are as follows: "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" and "Rue Barr e". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes a foreword by Rupert Hughes.
Exploring the Everglades ... In Search of the Unknown... ..".under all the fresh splendor of color death lurks in brilliant tints. Where painted fruit hangs temptingly, where great, silky blossoms exhale alluring scent, where the elaps coils inlaid with scarlet, black, and saffron, where in the shadow of a palmetto frond a succession of velvety black diamonds mark the rattler's swollen length, there death is; and his invisible consort, horror, creeps where the snake whose mouth is lined with white creeps--where the tarantula squats, hairy, motionless; where a bit of living enamel fringed with orange undulates along a mossy log. "'This is the place, ' said Professor Farrago. 'I have a curious presentiment, ' he said, 'that I shall not come out of this experiment unscathed.'" Journey with members of the Bronx Park Zoological Gardens as they search out exotic and seemingly extinct creatures like the dingue, the auk and the ux, wooly mammoths and even a prehistoric thermosaurus. Travel with them around the world as they dodge selkies and ekaf-birds in a series of adventures to tracks the weirdest creatures they can find. And then join them again in Police when they encounter amphibious humanoids, giant minnows, fire weasels and more
"Look " said Le Bihan shrilly. I looked. The pile below was a heap of skulls. After a moment I clambered down the gravel sides of the pit and walked over to the men of Bannalec. They saluted me gravely, leaning on their picks and shovels, and wiping their swearing faces with sunburned hands.
The Slayer of Souls By Robert W. Chambers
'Altogether one of the greatest weird tales ever written' H. P. Lovecraftt p>The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H. P Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's True Detective and George R. R. Martin. Contains: 'The Repairer of Reputations', 'The Mask', 'In the Court of the Dragon', 'The Yellow Sign'.
The King in Yellow (1895) by: Robert W. Chambers /, horror, supernatural /
Robert W. Chambers
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The King in Yellow is a 1895 collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. The book could be categorized as early horror fiction, but it also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, and science fiction The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.
"Every story of The King in Yellow has something riveting about it ... so perfectly realized, they became the model for much of twentieth-century horror/fantasy." - New York Press One of the most important works of American supernatural fiction since those of Poe, The King in Yellow was among the first attempts to establish the horror of the nameless and the unimaginable. A treasured source used by almost all the significant writers in the American pulp tradition - H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and many others - it endures as a work of remarkable power and one of the most chillingly original books in the genre. he King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance. The stories present in the book are: 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 Barr e
In Search of the Unknown
Robert W. Chambers
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2017
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A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories
Robert W. Chambers
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2017
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