<영어로 읽는 고전 _ 로버트 W. 챔버스의 크림슨 타이드_피비린내 나는 조류>
로버트 윌리엄 챔버스(Robert William Chambers)의 1919년 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 1919 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.

Contents

CHAPTER I. On the 7th of November, 1917,
CHAPTER II. They were a weary, half-starved and travel-stained quartette
CHAPTER III. The dingy little Danish steamer Elsinore passed in at dawn,
CHAPTER IV. There remained, now, nothing to keep Palla in Shadow Hill.
CHAPTER V. In touch with his unexciting business again,
CHAPTER VI. John Estridge, out of a job??as were a million odd others now arriving
CHAPTER VII. Shotwell Senior and his wife were dining out that evening.
CHAPTER VIII. Young Shotwell, still too incredulous to be either hurt or angry,
CHAPTER IX. He had called her up the following morning from the office,
CHAPTER X. There was still, for Palla, much shopping to do.
CHAPTER XI. When Shotwell arrived, dinner had already been announced,
CHAPTER XII. On a foggy afternoon, toward midwinter,
CHAPTER XIII. Palla’s activities seemed to exhilarate her physically and mentally.
CHAPTER XIV. There had been a row at the Red Flag Club??
CHAPTER XV. “So,” said Puma, “you are quite convinced he has much wealth. Yes?”
CHAPTER XVI. “Are you worried about this Dumont girl?”
CHAPTER XVII. “Jim,” said his mother,
CHAPTER XVIII. Shotwell Junior discovered in due course of time
CHAPTER XIX. Vanya’s concert had been enough of a success
CHAPTER XX. The pale parody on that sacred date which once had symbolised
CHAPTER XXI. As a mischievous caricaturist, in the beginning,
CHAPTER XXII. She felt a trifle weak.
CHAPTER XXIII. In the strange, springlike weather
CHAPTER XXIV. Leila Vance, lunching with Elorn Sharrow at the Ritz, spoke of Estridge
CHAPTER XXV. As he left the taxi in front of the dirty brick archway