商品簡介
Robert W. Chambers is most famous for his classic collection of weird horror stories, The King in Yellow. This two-fer offers a secondary collection of strange tales, The Maker of Moons, published early in his career, plus Chambers' last great occult thriller, The Slayer of Souls, originally published in 1920.
作者簡介
Robert William Chambers was born on May 26, 1865 in Brooklyn to a very well-to-do family. Educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he left for Paris in 1886 to study art at the ?cole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julian, and wrote a novel called In the Quarter. Returning to New York, he turned his back on his art background and started writing novels and stories, the most remarkable of which is the supernatural classic, The King in Yellow. Chambers followed this with a plethora of historical and society novels and became a very successful author in his time, producing many bestsellers. On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller, and they had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers. Following abdominal surgery, Chambers died on December 16, 1933.
