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Robert W. Chambers

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

May 26, 1865

Died

December 16, 1933

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Historical Fiction

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Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.

Chambers 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. 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. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird sho ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 51,727 ratings · 5,829 reviews · 784 distinct works • Similar authors

	The King in Yellow 3.54 avg rating — 27,735 ratings — published 1895 — 2129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King in Yellow and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction & Ghost Stories of Robert W. Chambers by Robert W. Chambers, M. Grant Kellermeyer (Illustrator) 3.69 avg rating — 8,758 ratings — published 1970 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow Sign and Other Stories by Robert W. Chambers, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 1,001 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow Sign 3.86 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1895 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers, Lon Milo DuQuette (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1895 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El rey de amarillo: Relatos macabros y terroríficos by Robert W. Chambers, Jesús Palacios (Prólogo), Marta Lila (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1895	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Court of the Dragon 3.53 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mask 3.60 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of the Unknown 3.48 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1904 — 488 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maker of Moons and Other Stories 3.43 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1896 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert W. Chambers

The Cardigan Series (4 books)
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Robert W. Chambers

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Quotes by Robert W. Chambers (?)

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”
― Robert Chambers

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“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

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“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”
― Robert W Chambers, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

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October 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 108 pages

40 votes, 26.5%

1320, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages

31 votes, 20.5%

1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm,, 880 pages

16 votes, 10.6%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages

15 votes, 9.9%

1895, Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 579 pages

15 votes, 9.9%

1848, Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 437 pages

14 votes, 9.3%

1832, Indiana by George Sand, 278 pages

7 votes, 4.6%

1864, Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages

7 votes, 4.6%

1895, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. Chambers, 287 pages

6 votes, 4.0%

151 total votes

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