The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) [Paperback]

Robert W. Chambers (Author), S. T. Joshi (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2004

This massive collection brings together the entire body of Robert W. Chamber's Weird fiction works, including material unprinted since the 1890's. Chambers is considered a landmark author in the field of horror literature for his KING IN YELLOW collection, which itself represents but a small portion of his weird fiction work. These stories are intimately connected with the Cthulhu Mythos introducing such manifestations as Hali, Carcosa, and Hastur. This book contains all the immortal tales of Robert W. Chambers, including "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Yellow Sign", and "The Mask". These titles are often found in survey anthologies. In addition to the six stories reprinted from THE YELLOW SIGN (1895) this book also offers more than two dozen other stories and episodes. These narratives rarely have appeared in print. Some have not been published in nearly a century. Stories are collected and edited by Lovecraftian Scholar S.T. Joshi.

Product Details

• Paperback: 643 pages
• Publisher: Chaosium (July 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568821700
• ISBN-13: 978-1568821702
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasing and Artistic, but boring at times, January 5, 2002

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Laura Fornos (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Yellow Sign and Other Stories (Paperback)

The first half of the book (The Yellow Sign sub-book) was fantastic. It was imaginative and scary. My favorite story was THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS.
After The Yellow Sign, though. The book gets more and more tedious. Not to say that all the stories are bad, but some are, and most are very hard to read- and it's a big book.
So, I recommend this to any Cthulhu Mythos fan as a literary "source" for Lovecraft and great info on The King in Yellow (which may have inspired the idea for The Necronomicon).

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More Than You May Want To Know, June 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Yellow Sign and Other Stories (Paperback)

I eagerly bought this book based on the King in Yellow tales by Chambers I had read years before. Yipes! Chambers wrote a ton of really dreadful stuff--silly, immature nonsense. Despite editor Joshi's disclaimers in the introduction that Chambers wasted a lot of his talent pandering to popularity, I don't think his comments adequately criticized the awfulness of much of this massive volume. Chambers undoubtedly could create real chills, but how the author of the King in Yellow short stories could descend into such pap is beyond me--what a disappointment and what a bore. Unless one is a total fanatic and has to have everything Chambers wrote that has a "fantastic" element, save your money and buy a small volume about the Yellow King. The only thing "fantastic" about most of these stories is how fantastically dreadful they are.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A work of Genius., November 29, 2000

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"macsbooks" (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Yellow Sign and Other Stories (Paperback)

From the genius of 'The Repairer of Reputations', thescientific adventures of 'Into the Unknown' and the Holmseque 'TheFinder of Lost Persons', Robert Chambers shows why he was one of thepre-eminent mystery/horror writers of his era. Ghosts, mysteries,potty professors, it's all here. It's hard to believe such good stuffwas being written over a century ago...