The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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In this episode, we delve into the dark and unsettling world of Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Repairer of Reputations." Join us as we explore the mind of an unreliable narrator, Hildred Castaigne, and his delusional quest for power and revenge. As we uncover the secrets of Castaigne's dystopian world and his belief in a cursed play called "The King in Yellow," we confront the disturbing and thought-provoking themes of madness, manipulation, and the fragility of reality. Buckle up for a journey into the unknown, as we dissect one of Chambers' most iconic and haunting stories. New Patreon Request Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back, isn't that?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.2	The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, original publication date 1895.
0:25.6	The King in Yellow is dedicated to my brother. Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake. The shadows lengthen in Carcosa.
0:40.3	Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies,
0:48.3	but Stranger still is lost Carcosa.
0:53.3	Songs that the Hiades shall sing, where flap the tatters of the king,
0:59.0	must die unheard in dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou unsung as tears unshed, shall dry and die in lost Carcosa.
1:18.1	Casilda's song in the King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2.
1:24.6	The repairer of reputations.
1:32.8	Ne relent the foo their folly dur more long time than the total difference.
1:36.8	Toward the end of the year 1920, the government of the United States had practically completed
1:42.7	the program, adopted during the last months
1:45.2	of President Winthrop's administration. The country was apparently tranquil. Everybody knows how
1:51.4	the tariff and labor questions were settled. The war with Germany incident on that country's
1:56.6	seizure of the Samoan Islands had left no visible scars upon the Republic, and the temporary
2:02.1	occupation of Norfolk by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeated
2:07.5	naval victories and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General von Gatt and Laubas forces in the
2:13.7	state of New Jersey. The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid 100%, and the territory of
2:20.1	Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station. The country was in a superb state of defense.
2:27.7	Every coast city had been well supplied with land fortifications. The army, under the parental eye of the
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