The Dark Star

Not really what I expected given the other of Chambers' works that I've read thus far, but quite entertaining nevertheless. A "dramatic" story that somehow manages to avoid most melodrama, which I appreciated.......more

A sci fi story, a fantasy? A tale of lives that join and seperate on the way to world war one. I had forgotten the slaughter of the apache gangsters in Paris.......more

(I read a print on demand copy, I am rating this edition because it's the only one with some reviewers) If one has read Chambers' magnum opus, The King in Yellow, one should know that he was all but a simple weird fiction writer. Some of the best stories in the collection were of a romantic nature, a......more

I'm finding so many amazing authors writing absolutely beautiful stories - and most of them wrote in the late 1800s-early 1900s. This can't be duplicated today - I've found some authors who try, but fail, to capture the atmosphere and intensity and description of these early works. Robert W Chambers......more