"Modlę się, by Bóg przeklął autora, który na świat cały rzucił klątwę swym dziełem niezwykłej urody i znakomitości, strasznym w swej prostocie, nieodpartym w swej prawdziwości - rzucił klątwę na świat, który drży teraz przed Królem w Żółci". Rok 1920. Na całym świecie, jak zaraza, rozprzestrzenia się znajomość osobliwej książki. Jej hipnotyzująca treść przyciąga kolejnych nieszczęśników i doprowadza ich do... przemiany. Kolejne nowele zbioru prezentują bohaterów, którzy pod ...
Zdaniem H. P. Lovecrafta „Żółty Znak” Chambersa to jedna z najlepszych opowieści grozy wszech czasów. A zdaniem S. T. Joshiego cały cykl czterech opowieści „Król w Żółci” to kamień milowy w dziedzinie horroru. Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) był pisarzem bardzo płodnym i bardzo popularnym w rodzimych Stanach Zjednoczonych na początku XX wieku. Ale dzisiaj jego powieści i nowele zostały zapomniane. Poza cyklem „Król w Żółci”. Łączy te historie tajemnicza księga - pomysł, który...
This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of various causes, among which are the following: Distrust of any aggressor on the part of a peace-minded nation.
The heroes learn about the fictional city of Karkos, where the King in yellow rules, and two suns shine in the sky, and this circumstance becomes the beginning of mystical changes in their destinies. Strange and terrible events in which reality and dreams are intertwined are illustrated by the outstanding Argentine artist Santiago Caruso.
Ain is a place where the great River flows under a thousand bridges, the gardens are full of fragrant flowers, and the air is filled with the melody of silver bells. This is the place where the Moon Elder rules. The lunar elder has the right to give whatever he wants, equally he can take away whatever he sees fit. He is the creator of terrible monsters from hundreds of thousands of different bodies.
Youth and life and happiness on the lunar path, and yet the path is not always silver for two glorious heroines. Nikhla Quellen, a dancer and beauty, is constantly entangled in a web of intrigue against which spies and secret service agents are plotting. Little Dulcie Soan finds herself in a whirlpool of excitement more than once.
This is an excellent collection of horror stories that remind of the dark side of nature and what it hides. The author can impress his readers not only with prose, but also with the atmosphere. This is a story about the murder of a butterfly collector and the haunting spirit of a renegade priest.
This book is one of the most popular novels by Robert William Chambers and has been translated into several other languages around the world. A casual conversation with a model for his new project forces him to test his theories about creativity, society, and love, and he discovers that other people have their own ideas about how it should all work.