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"The Repairer of Reputations" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. The story is an example of Chambers' horror fiction, and is one of the stories in the collection which contains the motif of the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.
"The Repairer of Reputations" – a story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title. " The Mask " – a dream story of art, love, and uncanny science. "In the Court of the Dragon" – a man is pursued by a sinister church organist who is after his soul.
Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842–1913).His parents met when his mother was twelve years old and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer.
The characters in the novel express credulity at the very concept of a "repairer of reputations" (rather than simply at Mr.Wilde's obviously imagined success at it). To me this is ironic given that (if one disregards Mr.Wilde's use of mafia-like tactics) the job seems to be essentially that of a spin doctor — Preceding unsigned comment added ...
"The Mask" is a short story in four parts published by Robert W. Chambers in his 1895 collection The King in Yellow. The story involves the themes of fantasy and alchemy, as well as art, love, and uncanny science, and contains the motifs of the King in Yellow.
The Haunts of Men is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, author of The King in Yellow (1895) and The Maker of Moons (1896). The first four tales feature the American Civil War, and most of the stories are set in America with Chambers' love of landscape prevalent.
The book's chief protagonist, Mendel Nachmanovich Dajcher, worked as a watch repairer before joining the Red Army, where he fought in the artillery. While he is at war, his wife and shtetl are massacred by a German Einsatzgruppe. In the midst of battle, he loses his regiment, becomes disoriented and is overtaken by the front, separated from and ...
"It is Yue-Laou, the Maker of Moons" The Maker of Moons is an 1896 short story collection by Robert W. Chambers which followed the publication of Chambers' most famous work, The King in Yellow (1895).