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Mientras pinta a la bella Tessie, el pintor contempla al trabajador de un cementerio que está enfrente de su estudio. Scott empieza a sentir como si, por solo mirarle, estuviera influenciando su pintura, que en vez de reflejar una sonrosada y lozana Tessie, empieza a mostrarla con la piel pálida y enfermiza. Tessie le cuenta que tiene un sueño recurrente sobre un coche fúnebre que conduce el trabajador del cementerio, y en el ataúd está... Pero el extraño símbolo amarillo da a entender que, posiblemente, no fue un sueño.

El protagonista de este relato visita la iglesia londinense de San Bernabé, y empieza a tener una sensación de miedo, que acaba descartando ante la belleza del templo. Empieza a escuchar el órgano, cuando de repente el organista se vuelve, le mira con una expresión de odio inimaginable, y después desaparece... ¡y, sin embargo, la música sigue sonando!Ya camino de su casa, intentando olvidar el absurdo episodio, siente un escalofrío cuando oye una voz salida de ninguna parte, de alguien que decía llamarse el Rey de Amarillo, susurrando a su alma.

Todos los relatos del Rey de amarillo están conectados por un símbolo, por una maldad difícil de comprender: En la corte del dragón - vas a sentir un escalofrío cuando una voz de ninguna parte empiece a susurrar a tu alma La demoiselle d'Ys - Si Jeane te invita a ir a su castillo, quizás te lo deberías pensar... a lo mejor no te conviene El símbolo amarillo - ¿pueden los espíritus de un cementerio influenciar el arte de un pintor? La máscara - ¿cómo se podría conseguir una escultura absolutamente perfecta?

Boris Yvain es un artista que junto con su amante Genevieve y sus amigos Alec, el narrador y Jacvk Scott, estudiando el Rey amarillo han descubierto un líquido misterioso que tiene la facultad de convertir cualquier objeto en una bella escultura de mármol. Genevieve bajo la influencia de una droga cae en la piscina del líquido misterioso y...

What is the terrible secret at the heart of The King in Yellow? The forbidden play’s second act is said to drive all those who read it mad. And the sinister text casts its shadow of dread over Robert W. Chambers’s collection of weird, supernatural stories of the same name. Threaded with elements of fantasy, science fiction, the supernatural, and gothic horror, this cult classic continues to inspire the imagination of artists - from H. P. Lovecraft to the writers of HBO’s True Detective - and delight connoisseurs of the macabre.

An excellent collection of creepy ghost stories from some of the most notable names of early horror fiction, including: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood, “The Shadows On The Wall” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “The Messenger” by Robert W.Chambers, “Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev, “The Beast With Five Fingers” by W.F. Harvey, “The Mass Of Shadows” by Anatole France, “What Was It” by Fitz-James O’brien, “The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Shell Of Sense” by Olivia Howard Dunbar, and more!

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.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

Robert W. Chanbers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is "The Prophets' Paradise," a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuring personifications of Love and Truth, the story's structure has a palindrome-like quality with internal repetition. Romantic in tone and ambiguous in theme, "The Prophets' Paradise" is one of Chambers' more experimental pieces.

Released one year after the publication of The King in Yellow - a milestone of supernaturalfiction - Robert W. Chambers’ title story of this short-story collection isconsidered one of his finest weird tales. It is followed by a series ofromantic art nouveau stories. Chambers’ love of natural scenery, symbolicanimal figures, and ghostly imagery are on full display as he weaves hischaracters through these otherworldly tales.

As the Century draws to a close it shows no sign of its literary talents diminishing. Authors stride into stories with a confidence and knowledge that now speak of a gilded age. We are challenged on many levels but always, always the story delivers a literary triumph.

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.

church organ plays. A shadow watches. Escape becomes impossible. In In the Court of the Dragon, Robert W. Chambers delivers one of the most haunting and psychologically unsettling stories from his legendary collection The King in Yellow. Set in Paris and steeped in dreamlike terror, the tale...

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. 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. 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. 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...

Join zoologist Percy Smith on his hilarious and thrilling adventures as he seeks out fantastical creatures, bizarre monsters, mysterious relics, and captivating women. In this delightful blend of humor and science fiction, prepare for a wild ride filled with laughter and wonder!This show includes AI-generated content.