Stefan Rudnicki
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The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, published by D. Appleton in 1897. Distinguished by an atmospheric use of natural scenery, the stories are mostly set in Brittany in France. The macabre and eerie feature throughout.
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Robert W. Chanbers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is "The Prophets' Paradise," a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuring personifications of Love and Truth, the story's structure has a palindrome-like quality with internal repetition. Romantic in tone and ambiguous in theme, "The Prophets' Paradise" is one of Chambers'...
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Released one year after the publication of The King in Yellow-a milestone of supernatural fiction-Robert W. Chambers' title story of this short-story collection is considered one of his finest weird tales. It is followed by a series of romantic art nouveau stories. Chambers' love of natural scenery, symbolic animal figures, and ghostly imagery are on full display as he weaves his characters through these otherworldly tales.