The King in Yellow: and Other Stories (Chambers Robert W.)(Paperback)

The King in Yellow (Chambers Robert)(Paperback)

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories.The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has

The King in Yellow: and Other Stories (Chambers Robert W.)(Paperback)

I remembered Camilla's agonized scream and the awful words echoing through the dim streets of Carcosa. They were the last lines in the first act, and I dared not think of what followed--dared not, even in the spring sunshine, there in my own room, surrounded with familiar objects, reassured by the

The King in Yellow / The Mystery of Choice (Chambers Robert W.)(Paperback)

THE KING IN YELLOW Robert W. Chambers was influenced by Ambrose Bierce and hailed by H. P. Lovecraft. He inspired such authors as Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt and Sax Rohmer. His works have been anthologized over the years in horror collections and his stories praised by such editors as Lin

The King in Yellow (Chambers Robert W.)(Paperback)

The King in Yellow is a premier collection of horror fiction consisting of 10 short stories with similar styles or concepts shaped by early mythology. Half the tales highlight an infamous play that's rumored to invoke fear, paranoia and madness within its readers. The first four stories feature a

The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition (Chambers Robert W.)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful gift edition of the supernatural horror cult classic that inspired H.P. Lovecraft and the HBO hit series True Detective 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

The Grey Parrot and Other Stories (Jacobs W. W.)(Paperback)

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories (Walser Robert)(Paperback)

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser's career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser's life;

Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord (McNamee Colm)(Paperback)

The life of Robert Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, briefly 'king of summer' and then a desperate fugitive who nevertheless returned from exile to recover the kingdom he claimed, Bruce became a gifted military leader and a wise

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Kipling Rudyard)(Paperback)

Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Along with the title piece, the volume includes

Read with Oxford: Stage 3: The Dinosaur King and Other Stories (Heapy Teresa)(Paperback / softback)

CHERUB: Dark Sun and other stories (Muchamore Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The perfect introduction to the bestselling CHERUB series - and a great gift for

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories (Ibbotson Eva)(Paperback)

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories is a delightful collection of eighteen of the best of Eva Ibbotson's short stories. They range from nineteenth-century Vienna to the north of England at the end of the last century, from pre-revolutionary Russia to the devastated Brazilian Amazon. Each

The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his 'Author's Note' to 'Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two 'Calm-pieces' ('The Secret Sharer' and The Shadow-Line) and his two 'Storm-pieces' (The Nigger of the

Rendezvous And Other Stories (Du Maurier Daphne)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting collection of stories in the tradition of THE BIRDS and DON'T LOOK

Death in the Woods and Other Stories (Anderson Sherwood)(Paperback)

Still fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson's unforgettable characters. In Death in the Woods, we travel deep into the heart of America as Anderson saw it, to find an introspective man, in a desolate

America Awaits Us, My Lovely, and Other Stories (Owen Christopher)(Paperback)

The locations of these stories range from Birmingham in 1890's, and 1900's to America in the 1900's, to the UK from the 1960's to present day. The subject matter includes desertion within the family, a young woman who relies of body decoration to secure her identity, life in a Children's Home in

Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories (Howland Bette)(Paperback / softback)

The bittersweet, sharply observed stories in Blue in Chicago introduce British readers for the first time to Bette Howland, a forgotten great of twentieth-century American fiction, perfect for fans of Lucia Berlin, Lydia Davis and Alice

A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories (Walser Robert)(Paperback)

A Schoolboy's Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser's strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser's first book, 'Fritz Kocher's Essays,' the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically

Space Pirates and Other Sci-fi Stories (Bradman Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Space Pirates and other stories is a collection of tales from an award-winning author in the science-fiction

Last Comes the Raven: And Other Stories (Calvino Italo)(Paperback)

Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection--one of Calvino's earliest--take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller's later style. A trio of

The Watcher and Other Stories (Calvino Italo)(Paperback)

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy's most imaginative writer. -Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us- (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt

Trilobites & Other Stories (Pancake Breece)(Paperback / softback)

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death. 'It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books

Italian Short Stories(Paperback / softback)

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of

The Gambler and Other Stories (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his