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로버트 윌리엄 챔버스(Robert William Chambers)의 1914년 작품으로 그는 19세기 말부터 20세기 초에 활동한 미국의 작가로, 소설가, 화가, 일러스트레이터로서 활동했다. 그의 작품 중에서 가장 잘 알려진 작품은 공포 소설 '킹 카르코스의 황홀한 이야기(The King in Yellow)'다. 이 작품은 공포와 미스터리 요소를 담은 소설 집으로, 후대의 작가들에게 큰 영향을 끼쳤다.

로버트 W. 챔버스는 공포와 판타지 장르에서 활동하며, 그의 작품은 공포와 미스터리 요소, 그리고 종종 초자연적인 요소를 다루는 특징이 있다. '킹 카르코스의 황홀한 이야기'는 후에 H.P. 러브크래프트(H.P. Lovecraft)와 같은 작가들에게 영감을 주었으며, 공포 문학의 발전에 기여한 작품 중 하나로 평가되고 있다.


A 1914 work by Robert William Chambers, he was an American writer, novelist, painter, and illustrator active from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. His best known work is the horror novel 'The King in Yellow'. This work is a collection of novels containing horror and mystery elements, and had a great influence on later writers.

Robert W. Chambers works in the horror and fantasy genres, and his work is characterized by elements of horror, mystery, and often the supernatural. 'The Enchanting Story of King Karkos' was later published by H.P. It inspired writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and is evaluated as one of the works that contributed to the development of horror literature.

요약
서쪽에는 새로운 초승달이 있었고 그 위에 별이 있어 기분 좋은 동양적 조합을 이루었다. 만과 강 위의 안개 속에서 장미와 보라색이 충분히 남아 강과 소리와 바다 사이에 앙와위로 뻗어 있는 괴물 같은 도시의 눈부신 광채를 가릴 수 있었다. 그리고 그 끊임없는 모노톤은 어두워지는 거리의 불빛 깊이에서 끊임없이 고동치고, 신음하고, 죽어가고, 끝없이 계속되고... 아탈리 백작부인의 하늘 응접실 창문은 모두 활짝 열려 있었지만 방안의 유일한 빛은 삼각대에 올려놓은 수정구에서 나오는데…

Summary
To the west was a new crescent moon and a star above it, making a pleasing oriental combination. Enough rose and purple remained in the mist over the bay and the river to obscure the dazzling brilliance of the monstrous city stretching supine between river and sound and sea. And that ceaseless monotone beats, groans, dies, and continues endlessly in the depths of the darkening street light... All the windows of Countess Attali's sky drawing room were wide open, but the only light in the room was a tripod mounted on a tripod. Coming out of the crystal ball...

Contents

CHAPTER I. There was a new crescent moon in the west which
CHAPTER II. With her silver tongs she selected a sweetmeat.
CHAPTER III. Young Jones, in wildest Florida, had never heard of it
CHAPTER IV. When Miss Cassillis heard the gun, it sounded very far away.
CHAPTER V. Through the golden forest light of afternoon,
CHAPTER VI. "Miami is not very far, is it?" she asked,
CHAPTER VII. "You are queer folk, you writers of fiction,"
CHAPTER VIII. he was lying on the bed when a relay of servants staggered
CHAPTER IX. She read, gazed at the gulls and wild ducks,
CHAPTER X. Slowly as a partly paralysed crab,
CHAPTER XI. After a moment she rose, went over
CHAPTER XII. She sipped the water pensively as we all returned to our places.
CHAPTER XIII. So Brown, who was nourishing a theory,
CHAPTER XIV. So Brown told her about his theory;
CHAPTER XV. The inhabitants of the Villa Hibiscus retired.
CHAPTER XVI. "She goes upstairs as though she were floating up,"
CHAPTER XVII. After a silence, she lay back among her cushions
CHAPTER XVIII. For a long while, seated on either side of the slumbering puppy,
CHAPTER XIX. He fell into step beside her, and they walked up
CHAPTER XX. Gray gathered the dog into his arms and strode swiftly
CHAPTER XXI. "This," she said, "will acquaint you in a measure with the trustworthiness
CHAPTER XXII. This picture is not concerned with his destination.
CHAPTER XXIII. That night he turned in, greatly depressed.
CHAPTER XXIV. For a while the baggage master fussed about the car,
CHAPTER XXV. Minute after minute throbbed in silence,
CHAPTER XXVI. When the tip of her cigarette glowed rosy in the pearl-tinted gloom,
CHAPTER XXVII. And on Tuesday he kept his word and the land
CHAPTER XXVIII. She seemed to be still more startled when she saw him:
CHAPTER XXIX. A little later he called to her:
CHAPTER XXX. When they came to their tents he went into hers,
CHAPTER XXXI. Toward sunset he came to, partially, passed his hand across his enchanted eyes,