Weird fiction, supernatural horror
Robert W. Chambers
1865 – 1933
Robert William Chambers was an American author and artist whose 1895 collection The King in Yellow became a landmark of American supernatural fiction. The book's interlinked stories centre on a cursed play that drives readers to madness, and its invented mythology of Carcosa and the Yellow Sign proved enormously influential on later weird fiction writers including H. P. Lovecraft.
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