An ornithologist seeking prehistoric creatures also discovers modern romance in these strange and satiric short stories by Robert W. Chambers, an early master of supernatural fiction and the author of the cult classic The King in Yellow. Originally published in periodicals of the early twentieth century, these six interconnected tales recount a madcap series of international romps. The hero, working under the auspices of the Bronx Zoo, scours the...

The Essential Robert W. Chambers Collection of books in one book: Ailsa Paige, Athalie, Barbarians, Between Friends, The Common Law, The Danger Mark, The Dark Star, The Fighting Chance, The Firing Line, The Flaming Jewel, The Hidden Children, In Search of the Unknown, In Secret. In the Quarter, The King In Yellow, Lorraine, The Maids Of Paradise, The Reckoning, The Trace of Lost Persons, and The Younger Set.

Should be read in the Golden Future, some snowy evening by the fire after a home dinner à deux. Your predestined husband, mademoiselle, is to extend his god-like figure upon a sofa, with an ash-tray convenient. You are to do the reading, curled up in the big velvet wing-chair, with the lamp at your left elbow and the fender under your pretty feet.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Flaming Jewel" by Robert W. Chambers. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Tressa Norne is no normal American girl. Raised in the Far East by the deadly Yezidee-Mongols, she one of their temple priestesses-and she's been trained to kill. Unwilling to do the cult's bidding any longer, Tressa escapes to her homeland, trailed by a Yezidee Prince and memories of her former life. Back on American soil and aided by dashing Secret Service Agent Victor Cleeves, Tressa is the only one with the power to stem the tide of evil rising...

"In Secret" is a mystery story taking place on the Swiss border during the War. An amazingly well written book with plenty of twists and surprises.

"A Young Man in a Hurry" is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, author of The King in Yellow. A collection of light romantic tales in which Chambers' love of fishing and hunting and natural scenery prevails. The stories are all set in America. The title story is a comedy of coincidence with an atmospheric setting of nocturnal snow in New York.

The 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 first four stories in the collection involve an imaginary two-act play of the same title.

For the first time in one volume, the best stories of one of America's most popular classic authors of the supernatural. Robert William Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895) has long been recognised as a landmark work in the field of the macabre, and has been described as the most important work of American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. Despite the book's success, its author was to return only rarely to the genre during the remainder...

Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection-The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate. The fourth and most darkly romantic offering from the 19th century horror classic,...