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Title: The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by Robert W. Chambers ISBN: 1-56882-170-0 Publisher: Chaosium, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: truly weird
Comment: very inventive. very original. and ha sure knows how to keep the reader from knowing what's going on. but he is too anarchicc in style, suddenly taking a long path AWAY from the horror. for example, he suddenly creates a love story in the middle of building a horror story with great promise. he can make a story become an unclear blur. he doesn't obey any rules, and it does not suit the stories.
Rating: 2
Summary: Few pearls in too many pages
Comment: Editor S.T. Joshi warns all the readers that Chambers can reach sometimes the nadir of literature and that he tried to not include the worst thing in this collection.
Nevertheless the disappointment is high as soon as you end the book and realize that only the first 88 pages are worth reading (that is the King in Yellow)on a total of 643.
In the remaining 555 pages ideas are scarce, character are monodimensional and there's a disturbing sense of racism.
I'll advise Cthulhu and Weird tales fan to get a book with only the Repairman of Reputation (which is indeed a marvelous story) unless they are truly collectors.
Rating: 3
Summary: More Than You May Want To Know
Comment: 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.
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Title: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series, 6035) by Arthur Machen, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 1568821727 Publisher: Chaosium, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by ROBERT E. HOWARD ISBN: 0345461509 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend by Daniel Harms, John Wisdom, III Gonce ISBN: 1578632692 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Nameless Cults (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by Robert E. Howard ISBN: 1568821301 Publisher: Chaosium, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Shadows Over Baker Street by MICHAEL REAVES, JOHN PELAN ISBN: 0345455282 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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