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The Dark Star

Robert W. Chambers

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She hit me that way—so help me God!”

“And you’re on the level?”

“Absolutely, Ben.”

“What about the old guy and the mother? Take ’em to live with you?”

“If she wants ’em.”

Stull stared at him in uneasy astonishment:

“All right, Eddie. Only don’t act foolish till Minna passes you up. And get out of here or you will. If you’re on the level, as you say you are, you’ve got to mark time for a good long while yet––”

“Why?”

“You don’t have to ask me that, do you?”

“Yes, I do. Why? I want to marry her, I tell you. I mean to. I’m taking no chances that some hick will do it while I’m away. I’m going to stay right here.”

“And when the new car comes?”

“I’ll keep her humming between here and Saratoga.̶. . . Read More

Community Reviews

(I read a print on demand copy, I am rating this edition because it's the only one with some reviewers)

If one has read Chambers' magnum opus, The King in Yellow, one should know that he was all but a simple weird fiction writer. Some of the best stories in the collection were of a romantic nature, a

I'm finding so many amazing authors writing absolutely beautiful stories - and most of them wrote in the late 1800s-early 1900s. This can't be duplicated today - I've found some authors who try, but fail, to capture the atmosphere and intensity and description of these early works. Robert W Chambers

A sci fi story, a fantasy?

A tale of lives that join and seperate on the way to world war one. I had forgotten the slaughter of the apache gangsters in Paris.

Not really what I expected given the other of Chambers' works that I've read thus far, but quite entertaining nevertheless. A "dramatic" story that somehow manages to avoid most melodrama, which I appreciated.