Name: Quick Action (en Inglés)
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Author: Robert W. Chambers
ISBN: 9781502326829

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Libro Físico

Autor

Robert W. Chambers

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

162

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.6 x 18.9 x 0.9 cm

Peso

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781502326829

Categorías

Textos antiguos, clásicos y medievales

Quick Action (en Inglés)

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There was a new crescent moon in the west which, with the star above it, made an agreeable oriental combination. In the haze over bay and river enough rose and purple remained to veil the awakening glitter of the monstrous city sprawling supine between river, sound, and sea. And its incessant monotone pulsated, groaning, dying, ceaseless, interminable in the light-shot depths of its darkening streets. The sky-drawing-room windows of the Countess Athalie were all wide open, but the only light in the room came from a crystal sphere poised on a tripod. It had the quality and lustre of moon-light, and we had never been able to find out its source, for no electric wires were visible, and one could move the tripod about the room. The crystal sphere itself appeared to be luminous, yet it remained perfectly transparent, whatever the source of its silvery phosphorescence. At any rate, it was the only light in the room except the dulled glimmer of our cigarettes, and its mild, mysterious light enabled us to see one another as through a glass darkly. There were a number of men there that evening. I don't remember, now, who they all were. Some had dined early; others, during the evening, strolled away into the city to dine somewhere or other, drifting back afterward for coffee and sweetmeats and cigarettes in the sky-drawing-room of the Countess Athalie. As usual the girl was curled up by the open window among her silken cushions, one smooth little gem-laden hand playing with the green jade god, her still dark eyes, which slanted a little, fixed dreamily upon infinite distance-or so it always seemed to us. Through the rusty and corrugated arabesques of the iron balcony she could see, if she chose, the yellow flare where Sixth Avenue crossed the shabby street to the eastward. Beyond that, and parallel, a brighter glow marked Broadway. Further east street lamps stretched away into converging perspective, which vanished to a point in the faint nebular radiance above the East River.

Robert W. Chambers

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Escritor estadounidense conocido por sus relatos de terror y misterio. Publicó El Rey Amarillo (1895), una colección de cuentos que influyó en la literatura fantástica y de horror, con elementos que posteriormente inspiraron a escritores como H.P. Lovecraft. Aunque inicialmente se destacó en la ficción macabra y sobrenatural, su carrera tomó un giro hacia la novela romántica e histórica, con títulos como The Tracer of Lost Persons (1906) y The Dark Star (1917).

Su obra combina el terror cósmico con el decadentismo literario de finales del siglo XIX. The King in Yellow sigue siendo su libro más reconocido, particularmente por su impacto en la mitología del horror. A pesar de haber escrito numerosas novelas, su legado se centra en la influencia que tuvo en el género del terror.

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