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Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
1865–1933
Best known today for the eerie stories in The King in Yellow, he was an American writer and trained artist whose work ranged from supernatural fiction to historical romance and popular magazine fiction. His reputation has endured largely because those uncanny tales went on to influence later horror writers.
47 Audiobooks
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Adventures of a Modest Man
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Fighting Chance
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Blue-Bird Weather
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Green Mouse
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In Search of the Unknown
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Maid-At-Arms: A Novel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Flaming Jewel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Tracer of Lost Persons
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In the Quarter
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Between Friends
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Hidden Children
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Common Law
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Japonette
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Special Messenger
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Barbarians
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Danger Mark
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Dark Star
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Girl Philippa
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Police!!!
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Firing Line
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Athalie
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Lorraine: A Romance
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In Secret
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Mystery of Choice
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Little Red Foot
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Reckoning
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Restless Sex
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Maids of Paradise
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Who Goes There!
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Eris
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Slayer of Souls
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Cardigan
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Laughing Girl
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Ailsa Paige: A Novel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Crimson Tide: A Novel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Business of Life
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Moonlit Way: A Novel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Quick Action
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Gay Rebellion
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Iole
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Younger Set
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Streets of Ascalon: Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre.
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Flaming Jewel
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The haunts of men
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The talkers
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
About the author
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 26, 1865, Robert W. Chambers first trained as an artist, studying at the Art Students League of New York and later in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. He began his career illustrating for magazines before turning seriously to fiction.
His most lasting book is The King in Yellow (1895), a collection of linked stories mixing decadence, mystery, and supernatural dread. Although Chambers went on to publish many novels and stories in other modes, including romance and historical adventure, that early volume remained the work most closely tied to his name.
Chambers died in New York on December 16, 1933. While he was widely read in his own time, modern readers are especially drawn to the strange atmosphere and unsettling imagination of his weird fiction, which helped shape later horror and fantasy writing.