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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of the weird works of Robert W Chambers. It contains most of his famed collection 'The King in Yellow' omitting only the romantic and frankly boring tales at the end of that book, it retains all the weird, spooky stuff that the average pursuer of his work will enjoy. At about 650 pages it is a nice bulky book printed on fine paper. The tales themselves are second to none, Chambers was a big influence on HP Lovecraft and in turn was inspired by Ambrose Bierce. Fans of those authors, Clark Ashton Smith, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany and Arthur Machen are sure to enjoy these tales.Some of them are genuinely scary. Especially the 'Repairer of Reputations' and the 'Yellow Sign'. Highly recommended from a fan of weird fiction.
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Being an enthusiastic weird fiction reader I could not, one day or another, escape Robert Chambers' work. The present volume is collecting all his weird tales and to be honest not all are successful. There are repetitions and many times you guess more or less the end. Yet you cannot deny the power of some of the stories where the creativity of the author allow the reader to enter a world of wicked priest and rolling skulls. Some of them are good fun and you clearly can feel that Chambers in many ways was an innovator in weird fictions, therefore I would encourage any serious weird fiction reader to engage with this book.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Pleasing and Artistic, but boring at times
5 Jan 2002
Format: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).
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
More Than You May Want To Know
29 Jun 2002
Format: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
A work of Genius.
29 Nov 2000
Format: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...
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