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Considered by many to be the father of supernatural fiction, Robert W. Chambers' work continues to influence writers today. Originally published in 1897, The Mystery of Choice brings together seven chilling tales, most of them set in Brittany. Distinguished by its atmospheric use of natural scenery, this important collection presents an author at the peak of his craft.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris is starving. Through the bitter winter of 1870, as Prussian guns ring the besieged city and bohemian artists share what little they have, the American painter Jack Trent clings to one warmth the cold cannot reach — his young wife Sylvia. Then a...

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of "The King In Yellow". This is a collection of the first half of this work of short stories which have an eerie, other-worldly feel to it; but the stories in the second half are essentially love stories, strongly coloured by the author's life as an artist in France. Only the first ...

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a collection of short stories that revolve around a mysterious play, said to drive readers mad with cosmic horror. Published in 1895, it introduces Carcosa, a haunting realm that influenced H.P. Lovecraft and shaped the weird fiction genre. Chambers merges supernatural dread with psychological suspense, following characters ensnared by the play’s corrupting power. Eerie settings, unsettling themes, and cryptic hints of forbidden knowledge create a timeless, spine-chilling narrative that resonates with fans of gothic horror and deep existential ...

Behind these doors lie romances of vanished courts, haunted studios, distant wars, and the pale, troubling light of stranger worlds. The Robert W. Chambers Library presents the works of Robert W. Chambers read in full: tales of beauty, peril, desire, and that subtle shadow which falls across even the brightest afternoon. Enter quietly; some books are best approached as one approaches a dream, or a forbidden play.

This collection includes five of the greatest stories of American classic horror. The richest of language is used to create extraordinary atmosphere - gloom, darkness, solitude, despair - and the relentless feeling of impending doom. Includes: "The Oval Portrait", by Edgar Allan Poe; "Ethan Brand", by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "The Yellow Sign", by Robert W. Chambers; "The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford; and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", by Ambrose Bierce.

Hildred Castaigne is a young man who lives in New York City whose life changes drastically after he falls from his horse and injures his head. Castaigne gets unjustly confined to a mental institution, where Dr. Archer treats him. However, the doctor soon realizes, that this is a mistake and the young man’s condition is not as bad as he was told. During Hildred’s treatment, the United States have prospered and improved their infrastructure, a new aristocratic elite has been formed and suicide has been legalized.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a shabby studio above the winding streets of the Latin Quarter, a struggling young painter is adopted by a stray cat – and around its throat he finds a delicate token that could only have belonged to a woman. As he reads the secrets stitched into...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the shadowy woods beneath Mount Saint Helena, Halpin Frayser awakens from a nightmare, whispering the name “Catherine LaRue.” His restless dreams entwine with haunting memories of a complex bond with his mother, leading him into a chilling past...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lost in the vast, untamed moors of Brittany, an American traveler stumbles into an eerie, forgotten world where time seems to stand still. Amidst the misty heather and haunting falcons, he encounters Jeanne, the enigmatic Demoiselle d'Ys. Her beauty is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man seeking peace in a Parisian church encounters something far more sinister. During the service, he notices a mysterious, pale figure with a dark, menacing gaze that seems to be following him. Soon, reality begins to blur as he’s drawn into a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world where the line between reality and nightmare blurs in hauntingly beautiful ways, an artist stumbles upon a symbol that changes everything. When his model, Tessie, becomes entangled in the mystery of The Yellow Sign, they are both plagued by...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of Boris Yvain's mysterious studio, a haunting tale unfolds, blurring the line between life and art. Boris discovers a secret that allows him to transform living beings into marble, capturing them in eternal form beyond the reach of any...

During World War I, an American secret service agent, Evelyn Erith, opens and deciphers a coded letter. It says the Germans believe that Kay MacKay, an American concentration camp escapee, knows The Great Secret. And that MacKay must be eliminated. Erith finds McKay, saves him from German agents and convinces him to join U.S. Intelligence. Together they venture undercover into the Swiss Alps to discover and expose The Great Secret. The future of Europe depends on it!

Skillfully narrated by voice actor Mark Turetsky, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a classic in the field of the supernatural. The series of 10 short stories is named after a fictional play of the same name which induces madness in the minds of those that read it. The Yellow King and Carcosa were often alluded to in a popular TV series True Detective, where evil and madness are often a theme.

The Messenger is a chilling gothic tale by Robert W. Chambers, where reason and folklore collide in the shadow of history. As a rational American observer investigates a mysterious burial site, he uncovers the story of a long-executed traitor known as the Black Priest—a man branded in death, cursed in blood, and sworn to return if his remains are ever disturbed. What follows is a slow descent into unease: a skull that will not stay buried, a death’s-head moth appearing at windows and hearths, masked figures glimpsed in stormlight, and blood trails that defy explanation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One of the stranger pieces in landmark collection The King in Yellow, this is not a conventional story but a sequence of brief, dreamlike prose poems. Across fragments bearing titles like "The Studio," "The Phantom," "The Sacrifice," and "Destiny," a...

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow .

It is the turn of the last century, and Alaska is a mysterious wilderness. At the suggestion of several hundred thousand ladies desiring to revel and possibly riot in the saturnalia of equal franchise, the unnamed lakes in that vast and little known region in Alaska bounded by the Ylanqui River and the Thunder Mountains were now being inexorably named after women.

When the brilliant sculptor Boris Yvain unveils a mysterious chemical solution capable of transforming living matter into flawless marble, what begins as a marvel of artistic preservation soon reveals something far more unsettling. Flowers, fish—even the fragile beauty of life itself—can be frozen into eternal perfection. But at what cost?