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  • Beating Wings
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    From a chaotic childhood shaped by gamblers and vaudeville to the refined world of art and society, Beating Wings follows Ellie’s relentless pursuit of identity, culture, and success. Her transformation is both rapid and remarkable, as she navigates class, education, and the expectations of a world unprepared for her kind of brilliance. Chambers blends social commentary with a ...
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    19,49 €

  • Blue-Bird Weather
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    A delicate romance set against the backdrop of the American countryside, Blue-Bird Weather is a tale of quiet longing, self-discovery, and the healing power of nature. Robert W. Chambers, best known for his supernatural fiction, crafts a tender story of a man who finds unexpected love in the serenity of rural life. With lyrical prose and evocative descriptions, this novel captu...
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    11,40 €

  • The Firing Line
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The Firing Line by Robert W. Chambers is a romance novel set against the backdrop of high society in New York and the subtropical setting of Florida. The story follows the complex relationships between its main characters-particularly the wealthy heroine, Sylvia Landis, and the men who pursue her. Blending themes of love, jealousy, and social expectations, Chambers explores the...
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    21,64 €

  • The Danger Mark
    John Ed Chambers / John Ed. Chambers / John EdChambers / Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    A young woman from New York’s upper class grapples with addiction and the emotional weight of an inherited fortune. Set against the backdrop of high society, her struggle toward self-improvement is complicated by family pressures and her developing romance with a family friend. The story weaves themes of personal growth, love, and redemption as the protagonist seeks to overcome...
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    18,90 €

  • In Search of the Unknown
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers is a fantasy novel that blends adventure, romance, and the supernatural. The protagonist, a zoologist and explorer, embarks on a quest to discover and capture rare, mystical creatures. Along the way, he encounters strange phenomena and uncanny beings in remote, exotic locations. Chambers, known for his early weird fiction and The K...
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    15,16 €

  • In Search of the Unknown
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers is a fantasy novel that blends adventure, romance, and the supernatural. The protagonist, a zoologist and explorer, embarks on a quest to discover and capture rare, mystical creatures. Along the way, he encounters strange phenomena and uncanny beings in remote, exotic locations. Chambers, known for his early weird fiction and The K...
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    32,84 €

  • Barbarians
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    In the shadow of World War I, a group of disillusioned Americans arrives in France, drawn by a desire to make a difference. Among them is John Burley, whose quest for purpose leads him to a remote village where he encounters Maryette, the enchanting bell-mistress of Sainte Lesse. As Burley finds himself captivated by Maryette and the quaint charm of village life, sinister force...
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    20,46 €

  • The Mystery of Choice
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    This collection of short stories blends supernatural elements with psychological depth, featuring tales set in eerie, atmospheric locations. Chambers explores themes of fate, choice, and the unknown, often infusing his stories with a sense of unease and mystery. These stories, rich in Gothic and weird fiction influences, showcase Chambers’ talent for blending the ordinary with ...
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    19,56 €

  • The Maker of Moons
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    This captivating collection of stories blends elements of fantasy, horror, and mystery. The title story, The Maker of Moons, is a haunting tale of mystical artifacts, secret societies, and otherworldly powers, weaving an atmosphere of eerie suspense. Chambers masterfully explores the uncanny and the supernatural, merging dreamlike imagery with vivid storytelling that captures t...
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    22,57 €

  • The Flaming Jewel
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    15,81 €

  • The Fighting Chance
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    19,79 €

  • The King in Yellow (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The King in Yellow is a collection of ten short stories, four them tales of supernatural horror that are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title. The play within the stories drives those who read it to illness and possible insanity and leaves them in a dazed state, speaking about unexplained mythological terms. The first season of True Detective frequentl...
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    8,86 €

  • Ailsa Paige
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    Ailsa Paige returns with a glow of moonlit streets and whispered destinies, inviting modern readers to enter a dreamlike world where passion and propriety collide. A concise, haunting meditation on longing and society, it lingers long after the final page.This edition presents a refined valuing of a classic, preserving the essence of Robert W. Chambers’s early twentieth century...
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    26,30 €

  • Between Friends
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    A pulse of urban mystery and intimate dread runs through these late-Victorian tales, where friendship can fray into peril and awe hides in everyday corners.Between Friends gathers Robert W. Chambers’s vintage fantasy and gothic sketches into a refined collection that feels both antiquarian and startlingly modern. The stories thread social satire with eerie mood, turning New Yor...
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    15,98 €

  • The Dark Star
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    In a world where the shadows of war loom large, ''The Dark Star'' by Robert W. Chambers emerges as a haunting exploration of love, loss, and the indomitable human spirit. This captivating tale, long out of print and now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions, invites readers to journey through the tumultuous landscape of World War I fiction, where epic battles and poignant mome...
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    24,72 €

  • The Danger Mark
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    Step into the vibrant world of early 20th-century New York with ''The Danger Mark,'' a captivating novel by Robert W. Chambers that has been out of print for decades and is now lovingly republished by Alpha Editions. This edition is not just a reprint; it’s a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today’s and future generations to enjoy.In ''The Dan...
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    25,66 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    2021 Reprint of the 1895 Edition.   Science Fiction critic and scholar E. F. Bleiler called this work 'the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the Moderns.' With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Chamber’s book is a classic masterpiece of world fiction. It is a series of vaguely connected stori...
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    8,72 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The King in Yellow is a premier collection of horror fiction consisting of 10 short stories with similar styles or concepts shaped by early mythology. Half the tales highlight an infamous play that’s rumored to invoke fear, paranoia and madness within its readers.The first four stories feature a 'yellow' theme tied to the play, a specific symbol or supernatural force. 'The Repa...
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    11,08 €

  • The King in Yellow Revised
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    A collection of short stories that all seem to have different topics and characters but that seem to revolve around one concept, a mysterious play, The King in Yellow. Like the Cthulhu Mythos, that Chambers is considered to be part of, the stories herein are all connected by a central motif, not only of the play itself but on the human condition and in the inevitable coming of ...
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    37,66 €

  • The Mystery of Choice
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The Mystery of Choice is the second collection of short stories to follow the publication of The King in Yellow. It contains eight stories mostly set in Brittany in France. They are characterized by the atmosphere, sense of macabre and eerie for which Chambers is known. This production includes all the stories of the original publication, including ''The Key to Grief'' that was...
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    14,00 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    With one foot in the gothic horror genre and the other in early modern horror, The King in Yellow also touches on fantasy, mystery, war, mythology, and science fiction. The book had a profound influence on the work of Lovecraft and other similar writers of the early 20th Century.Unlike other authors of the past, Chambers was very successful in his lifetime, and The King in Yell...
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    15,09 €

  • The Master of Moons
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The Maker of Moons is the first collection of short stories to follow the publication of The King in Yellow. It contains eight stories, including the title story, with the first three linked by a common theme. The other stories are a mix of romantic, humorous romantic and weird stories.This production includes all the stories of the original publication, including the black and...
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    16,20 €

  • The Tree of Heaven
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The Tree of Heaven is a third collection of short stories published after The King in Yellow, The Maker of Moons, and The Mystery of Choice in which Chambers returns to the weird genre. With a snowy nocturnal backdrop, the stories are light and humorous romantic tales mostly set in New York.This production is illustrated with the artwork of the 1907 edition and includes all sto...
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    15,11 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    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. ...
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    27,94 €

  • The King in Yellow (Heathen Edition)
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an American illustrator and writer, best known for The King in Yellow, his influential and odd collection of ten macabre and French short stories first published in 1895. The title refers to a fictional play featured in four of the stories, and to a mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity within that play who may very well exist out...
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    13,85 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The King in Yellow has gone virtually unread for most of the past century. The first half of the book is made up of four supernatural weird tales that are unrelated to one another except by one strange link: a fictional play, also called The King in Yellow, which drives anyone who reads it past the first act completely insane. ...
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    8,29 €

  • The King in Yellow
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    A collection of short stories that all seem to have different topics and characters but that seem to revolve around one concept, a mysterious play, The King in Yellow. Like the Cthulhu Mythos, that Chambers is considered to be part of, the stories herein are all connected by a central motif, not only of the play itself but on the human condition and in the inevitable coming of ...
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    23,77 €

  • The Slayer of Souls / The Maker of Moons
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
     THE SLAYER OF SOULS It is the year 1920.  A dedicated group of Mongol Yezidees are plotting to overthrow the governments of the world.  Led by the evil sorcerer Prince Sanang, the Slayer of Souls, their ultimate aim is the triumph of evil.  The only person who stands between their dark design and world chaos is a young woman named Tressa Norne.  An American orphaned in Mongoli...
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    15,29 €

  • The King in Yellow / The Mystery of Choice
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    THE KING IN YELLOW Robert W. Chambers was influenced by Ambrose Bierce and hailed by H. P. Lovecraft. He inspired such authors as Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt and Sax Rohmer. His works have been anthologized over the years in horror collections and his stories praised by such editors as Lin Carter, Hugh Lamb, Sam Moskowitz and Stephen Jones.  Inspired by the Decadents, Chambe...
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    15,75 €

  • The Yellow Sign and Others
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers.When I first saw the watchman his back was toward me. I looked at him indifferently until he went into the church. Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air. A man was standing in the courtyard of the church, and I noticed him again with as little interest as I had that morning...
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    6,00 €


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