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Just click the link in the show description to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night.

We are now at our final story as a part of our marking our 200th episode.

Thank you for joining us on this journey. Our story for the evening comes from none other than Robert W. Chambers.

Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 26, 1865 to William P. Chambers and Carolyn Chambers.

His father is a successful lawyer and his mother, a direct descendant of the founder of Providence, Rhode Island.

Robert's brother, Walter, would become a world-famous architect.

Sounds like this family is doing all right.

Studying first in Brooklyn, then in Paris as an artist artist he found some measure of commercial success with his illustrations however mysteriously he switches his attention entirely to writing his most successful and famous publication would be the king in yellow which we will be hearing a story from this evening

after successful publishing of many weird tales,

he switches suddenly to writing romantic fiction. During World War I, he changes again to writing

war adventure novels and war stories, although some of them returned to his previously abandoned

weird styles. After 1924, he writes historical fiction exclusively. On December 16th, 1933, he

dies a few days after undergoing intestinal surgery. Chambers, the King and Yellow,

borrows from Ambrose Beers, who we heard from opening up episode 200, including Hallie and

Haster and Carcosa.

These themes, along with Chambers' inclusion, in his own stories, would in turn be borrowed by

H.P. Lovecraft. More recently, if you happen to have seen the astoundingly good first season

of True Detective, you will recall the regular references to Carcosa and the King in Yellow,

all from this lineage of madness.

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