Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.Ĭhambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's True Detective.Ĭontains: ‘The Repairer of Reputations’, ‘The Mask’, ‘In the Court of the Dragon’, ‘The Yellow Sign’ Since their first publication in 1895 they have become cult classics, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H. These stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction.

The four uncanny and terrifying tales contained between these covers are all linked by their reference to a certain notorious play, a cursed, forbidden play that has spread like a contagion across the world, a play in which the second act reveals truths so terrible, and so beautiful, that it drives all who read it to lunatic despair: The King in Yellow. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with the beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon.

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