Out of the Dark by Robert W Chambers

Out of the Dark by Robert W Chambers

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 of a writing career which spanned four decades. When Chambers did return to the supernatural, however, he displayed all the imagination and skill which distinguished The King in Yellow. He created the enigmatic and seemingly omniscient Westrel Keen, the ‘Tracer of Lost Persons’, and chronicled the strange adventures of an eminent naturalist who scours the earth for ‘extinct’ animals – and usually finds them. One of his greatest creations, perhaps, was 1920’s The Slayer of Souls, which features a monstrous conspiracy to take over the world: a conspiracy which can only be stopped by supernatural forces. For the first time in a single volume, Hugh Lamb has selected the best of the author’s supernatural tales, together with an introduction which provides further information about the author who was, in his heyday, called ‘the most popular writer in America’.

‘They call him the most popular writer in America’ Cosmopolitan

‘Chambers strove for charm, action and character … he was a teller of stories, and to tell a good story well is a high and difficult art’ Rupert Hughes, from the foreword to The King is Yellow

Hugh Lamb has spent over forty years delving into weird fiction. Tired of anthologies reprinting the same old stories, he tried his hand at editing his own. His main area of research is Victorian ghost stories and he has published five anthologies of these: Victorian Tales of Terror, Terror by Gaslight, Victorian Nightmares, Tales from a Gaslit Graveyard, and Gaslit Nightmares. A freelance journalist by profession, Hugh Lamb lives in Sutton, Surrey.

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ISBN 13	9780008265366
ISBN 10	0008265364
Title	Out of the Dark
Author	Robert W Chambers
Series	Collins Chillers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harpercollins
Year published	2018-10-16
Number of pages	496
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