Robert W. Chambers
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An American artist and author who wrote a great variety of novels. Not to be confused with [Raymond Wilson Chambers]( (1874-1942).
Books
The Messenger
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
The Willows / Algernon Blackwood The Shadows on the Wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Messenger / Robert W. Chambers Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev The Beast with Five Fingers / W.f. Harvey The Mass of Shadows / Anatole France What Was It? / Fitz James O'brien The Middle Toe of the Right Foot / Ambrose Bierce The Shell of Sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar The Woman At Seven Brothers / Wilbur Daniel Steele At the Gate / Myla Jo Closser Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Orchard / Richard le Gallienne The Bowmen / Arthur Machen A Ghost / Guy de Maupassant
Curses
Contents: Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bloch The Doom of the Griffiths - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell ] You Know Willie - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell Trouble with Water - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ] Mad Monkton - novella by Wilkie Collins Long Chromachy of the Crows - shortstory by Seumas MacManus The Little Black Train - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman The Curse of the Catafalques - novelette by F. Anstey A Séance in Summer - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr. ] Transformations - shortstory by Christopher Fahy In Dark New England Days - shortstory by Sarah Orne Jewett The Messenger - novelette by Robert W. Chambers Or the Grasses Grow - shortstory by Avram Davidson The Dollar - shortstory by Morgan Robertson A Hunger in the Blood - novelette by Talmage Powell
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Robert W. Chambers was a prolific American author who wrote a number of genres. His most famous work is the occult classic The King in Yellow.