Robert W. Chambers

A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic of supernatural fiction, out in time for Christmas.

The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of “The King In Yellow”. This is a collection of the first half of this work of short stories which have an eerie, other-worldly feel to it; but the stories in the second half are essentially love stories, strongly coloured by the author’s life as an artist in France.

The King in Yellow

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.

A milestone of American supernatural fiction from the author who has been hailed as the link between Poe and Stephen King. 12 gripping stories, with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.

The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

Il re giallo

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Nikolai Gogol

Edgar Allan Poe

O Henry

J M Barrie

Our journey through the arc and pages of a book is often in the safe and knowing words of a narrator. But sometimes these friends, these guardians of our trust play games, they betray our literary friendship with lines on which we can’t rely. They take us into literary mazes turn characters we accept into those we mistrust, situations we know into something we can now only doubt. However, we still enjoy the journey; sometimes they make it so much fun there may be a happy ending. But often there isn’t. I did say they were unreliable. Among their untrustworthy ranks are J M Barrie, George Eliot, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry and Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Stories With An Unreliable Narrator: For these authors, the truth has many versions and perspectives

Short Stories With An Unreliable Narrator

Robert E. Howard

Lafcadio Hearn

H. P. Lovecraft

Arthur Machen

More than 40 terrifying tales from the masters of cosmic horror. Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this volume. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares. This collection includes the brilliant and horrifying tales from: * H. P. Lovecraft * Robert E. Howard * Arthur Machen * Lafcadio Hearn * Robert W. Chambers

Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre

The Necronomicon

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) nació en Brooklyn en una familia de terratenientes de origen escocés. Estudió en el New York Art Student’s League y en 1886 se trasladó a París, donde convivió con la bohemia artística del fin de siglo. Cuando Chambers regresa a Nueva York, su vocación de ilustrador cede a su pasión por contar historias y publica un primer libro, «In the Quarter» (1894), sobre sus experiencias en París. Le seguirá un año después una colección de relatos, El Rey de Amarillo, que le convierte en un maestro indiscutible del moderno cuento de terror, capaz de aportar una visión del mal, el horror y lo sobrenatural, alejada por completo del monstruo y el fantasma gótico clásico. En El Rey de Amarillo. Relatos macabros y terroríficos –título que hace referencia a una obra imaginaria, «El Rey de Amarillo», cuya lectura provoca estupor, locura y tragedia espectral, y de la que el Necronomicón lovecraftiano es deudor– hemos seleccionado los cinco relatos de corte fantástico de la colección original (dejando de lado los que no lo son): La máscara, En el Pasaje del Dragón, El Reparador de Reputaciones, La demoiselle d’Ys y, el más famoso, El Signo Amarillo –obra maestra del cuento macabro de suspense, con un final escalofriante– . El volumen se completa con El Creador de Lunas y Una velada placentera, procedentes de «The Maker of Moons» (1896); y El Emperador Púrpura, El Mensajero y La Llave del Dolor, de «The Mystery of Choice» (1897). En estos relatos, precursores de los Mitos de Chtulhu, se respira una atmósfera eminentemente pesadillesca, alucinatoria y onírica. El Rey de Amarillo. Relatos macabros y terroríficos invoca un mundo de caos y perdición, fascinante y repugnante al tiempo, que nos recuerda algunas obras de Meyrink e incluso del propio Kafka.

Relatos macabros y terroríficos

El Rey de Amarillo

A beautiful gift edition of the cult classic work of weird fiction and supernatural horror, which inspired H.P. Lovecraft and the first season of HBO’s True Detective 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. I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon . . . I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth–a world which now trembles before 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. Since their first publication in 1895, they have become a cult classic, influencing the renowned master of cosmic horror, H.P Lovecraft, to the creators of HBO’s True Detective.

An early classic of the weird fiction genre

I. N.J. Culbard

Estranha é a noite da estrela ascendente, e estranhas as luas que oscilam cadentes. Mas mais estranha ainda é a penosa e perdida Carcosa. Aqui tem início um novo espaço para resgatar tesouros e se aventurar pelo desconhecido, numa experiência mística que reunirá os leitores da DarkSide® Books ao redor de um mesmo ritual de arte, magia e imaginação no qual o secreto é compartilhado com todos. Bem-vindos à nossa Sociedade Secreta, uma iniciativa que brindará leitores de todas as idades e interesses com livros e quadrinhos que se tornaram pedras fundamentais da literatura fantástica mundial, num reencontro com as raízes do horror e da ficção científica. Como convite iniciático a essa nova experiência escolhemos O Rei de Amarelo, de Robert W. Chambers, uma obra-prima da literatura de horror que chega na Casa da Caveira em duas versões, uma em livro, com ilustrações de Samuel Araya (Vampiro: A Máscara), e outra em quadrinhos, criada pelo quadrinista inglês I.N.J. Culbard (Nas Montanhas da Loucura e O Retrato de Dorian Gray). Uma dupla oportunidade de se assombrar com o universo sombrio que inspirou nomes como Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Guillermo Del Toro, Grant Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King e Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective). Na trama, uma das primeiras a trazer a ideia de um livro amaldiçoado, uma peça de teatro intrigante e proibida leva loucura e desgraça a todos que a leem. Com um traço inquietante e minimalista que já reinventou para os quadrinhos as estranhezas de Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle e H.P. Lovecraft, Culbard recria as quatro histórias clássicas que aprofundam o mito de Carcosa, trazendo à tona uma nova costura narrativa que torna as conexões entre mundos, seres e eventos de Chambers ainda mais assustadoras. Neste cruzamento do texto apoteótico de Chambers e da arte perturbadora de Culbard, acessaremos a maldição de Hastur, o insano efeito do sigilo amarelo sobre seguidores enlouquecidos e os reinos perdidos da milenar Carcosa, revelando a loucura e o assombro que aguardam aqueles que ousaram virar a página do livro maldito. Prepare-se para mergulhar em uma trama intensa e misteriosa, repleta de eventos estranhos e inexplicáveis. Sociedade Secreta Sociedade Secreta convida os leitores da DarkSide Books a uma experiência literária e gráfica, lúdica e mágica, a partir de obras inovadoras e repletas de significado e mistério. São obras escolhidas a dedo para arrepiar, emocionar e cativar a imaginação de leitores aventureiros que há uma década tem devorado histórias na companhia da Caveira. Juntos, vamos escavar, resgatar e desvelar. Vamos fazer renascer a grande conexão com as obras, artistas e ritos do passado. Celebrar os livros dentro dos livros, os sonhos dentro dos sonhos. Valorizar todas as mentes que ganharam a eternidade dentro de nós.

O Rei de Amarelo – HQ

El Rey de Amarillo: relatos macabros y terroríficos

The Yellow Sign

Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

Virginia Woolf

Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry James

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

H. G. Wells

Aleister Crowley

Algernon Blackwood

F. Marion Crawford

Rudyard Kipling

Edith Wharton

E. F. Benson

O. Henry

Walter Scott

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Oscar Wilde

Clark Ashton Smith

Guy de Maupassant

Wilkie Collins

Willa Cather

Bram Stoker

Anatole France

W. W. Jacobs

Nathaniel Hawthorne

John Buchan

Margaret Oliphant

Edith Nesbit

Marjorie Bowen

Edward Lucas White

Elizabeth Gaskell

Oliver Onions

M. R. James

William Hope Hodgson

Ambrose Bierce

M. P. Shiel

Mark Twain

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

L. P. Hartley

Washington Irving

Saki

Lord Dunsany

Leonid Andreyev

Amelia B. Edwards

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Richard Connell

Vernon Lee

Rebecca Harding Davis

W. F. Harvey

Robert Hichens

Walter De La Mare

Violet Hunt

John Metcalfe

A. M. Burrage

Cynthia Asquith

Myla Jo Closser

Vincent O’Sullivan

H. Russell Wakefield

Franz Kafka

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be aware that this book includes a big amount of stories that appear for the first time in digital print.

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories (KathartikaTM Classics)

Montague Rhodes James

Osie Turner

Tod Robbins

“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”; “The Confessions of Constantine,” which drives its readers into a homicidal rage—these accursed books are the subject of this collection of olden tales. Table of Contents: The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James The White People by Arthur Machen The Devil in Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) by Algernon Blackwood P.’s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Innmost Light by Arthur Machen The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne For Art’s Sake by Tod Robbins Appendix: In Search of the Real Necronomicon by Osie Turner

The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books

Datant de 1895, Le Roi en jaune est un recueil américain de dix nouvelles mêlant fantastique, horreur et roman policier. Les quatre premières nouvelles du recueil font référence à une mystérieuse pièce de théâtre qui crée un tel choc esthétique aux yeux des spectateurs qu'ils deviennent fous et se suicident. Atmosphère oppressante, personnages étranges, spectres inquiétants, chaque nouvelle offre son lot d’effroi et de mystère. Ce texte aussi troublant qu'étonnant de modernité, dans la droite lignée d’un Edgar Allan Poe, a inspiré de grands noms comme Lovecraft, mais aussi la nouvelle série américaine à succès : True Detective écrite par l'auteur Nic Pizzolatto avec l'acteur star Matthew McConaughey. La série est actuellement diffusée sur OCS et sera diffusée sur Canal + au premier semestre 2015. Elle cartonne déjà dans le monde entier. La maison indépendente Malpertuis a publié ce texte en 2009.

Le Roi en jaune

In the early twentieth century, the trends of rampant alcohol consumption, salacious dance crazes, and frolicking flappers threw traditional sexual mores into a tailspin. In the hilarious romantic farce The Younger Set, author Robert W. Chambers project the anxieties of this tumultuous early twentieth century onto an older generation, mercilessly lambasting the pretensions and hang-ups of the Victorian era.

The Younger Set

The King in Yellow Revised

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