Datant de 1895, Le Roi en jaune est un recueil américain de dix nouvelles mêlant fantastique, horreur et roman policier. Les quatre premières nouvelles du recueil font référence à une mystérieuse pièce de théâtre qui crée un tel choc esthétique aux yeux des spectateurs qu'ils deviennent fous et se suicident. Atmosphère oppressante, personnages étranges, spectres inquiétants, chaque nouvelle offre son lot d’effroi et de mystère. Ce texte aussi troublant qu'étonnant de modernité, dans la dro...

* Book : In Search of the Unknown* Biography* BibliographyThe stories feature a man who searches for lost species -- animals not seen for centuries -- and as we follow him on these journeys we're introduced to a variety of amazing creatures including the half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor master".

* Book : The Hidden Children* Biography* BibliographyClassic novel by the American artist and writer, most well known for his collection of weird fiction short stories; The King in Yellow. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status.

* Book : The Danger Mark* Biography* BibliographyAll day Sunday they had raised the devil from attic to cellar; Mrs. Farren was in tears, Howker desperate. Not one out of the fifteen servants considered necessary to embellish the Seagrave establishment could do anything with them after Kathleen Severn's sudden departure the week before.When the telegram announcing her mother's sudden illness summoned young Mrs. Severn to Staten Island, every servant in the hou...

* Book : The Fighting Chance* Biography* BibliographyThe speed of the train slackened; a broad tidal river flashed in- to sight below the trestle, spreading away on either hand through yellowing level meadows. And now, above the roaring undertone of the cars, from far ahead floated back the treble bell-notes of the locomotive; there came a gritting vibration of brakes; slowly, more slowly the cars glided to a creaking stand- still beside a sun-scorched platform gay wi...

* Book : The Firing Line* Biography* Bibliography"It's really very classical," he said, "like the voyage of Ulysses; I, Ulysses, you the water nymph Calypso, drifting in that golden ship of Romance-" "Calypso was a land nymph," she observed, absently, "if accuracy interests you as much as your monologue."Checked and surprised, he began to laugh at his own discomfiture; and she, elbow on the gunwale, small hand cupping her chin, watched him with an expressionle...

* Book : Ailsa Paige* Biography* BibliographyHistorical love story set during the Civil War.Among the fifty-eight regiments of Zouaves and the seven regiments of Lancers enlisted in the service of the United States between 1861 and 1865 it will be useless for the reader to look for any record of the 3d Zouaves or of the 8th Lancers. The red breeches and red fezzes of the Zouaves clothed many a dead man on Southern battle-fields; the scarlet swallow-tailed penn...

* Book : The Dark Star* Biography* BibliographyA pastor's daughter is inadvertently involved the heist of the famous Dark Star gem. Is there a prince who can save her from ruin and recover the stone? Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827 - 1911), a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers (nee Boughton), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder...

* Book : In the Quarter* Biography* BibliographyThe story deals with life in the Quartier Latin, in Paris, where the merry art students live and move and have their being, and over which the halo of romance ever hangs; a peculiar people with whom we have spent many an entrancing hour in company with such volumes as "Trilby" and "A King in Yellow."

* Book : Police!!!* Biography* BibliographyPOLICE is a volume of xenobiology: cryptozoology. Weird monsters and strange relics from the fossil eras; things which ought never to have walked upon the face of this earth. But they have walked among us. And I have seen them. And I have told the world. It has caused a certain madeness among the people. I can't be hold to account, can I?

* Book : The Green Mouse* Biography* BibliographyTo the literary, literal, and scientific mind purposeless fiction is abhorrent. Fortunately we all are literally and scientifically inclined; the doom of purposeless fiction is sounded; and it is a great comfort to believe that, in the near future, only literary and scientific works suitable for man, woman, child, and suffragette, are to adorn the lingerie-laden counters in our great department shops. It is, then, with ...

"Look " said Le Bihan shrilly. I looked. The pile below was a heap of skulls. After a moment I clambered down the gravel sides of the pit and walked over to the men of Bannalec. They saluted me gravely, leaning on their picks and shovels, and wiping their swearing faces with sunburned hands.