The Hidden Children

by Robert W. Chambers

Overview

"The thing about Rodgers is, he takes the horror — and it's horrible, all right — and turns it into the light just a little differently than you'd ever expect and from this angle you realize it's more tragic than horrid, more beautiful than hideous." — Orson Scott Card / F&SF. New Life for the Dead is one of the best horror collections of the 1990s, and it features many of Rodgers' best short works, including his Bram Stoker Awardwinning novelet, "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783986471460
Publisher:	Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Publication date:	08/31/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	333
File size:	971 KB

About the Author

Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane.Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow.Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction.Chambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown.On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author.Chambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.

Table of Contents

	Mr. Rodgers's Neighborhood	1
	Stories
	The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead	1
	The Night Gil Rhys First Met His Love	38
	Emma's Daughter	52
	Frankenstein Goes Home	88
	Penny Lombard and the Heart Ken Found	111
	Poems
	Prometheus's Declaration of Love for the Vulture	36
	Tellus Mater at the Overpass	50
	Dance	51
	Rondel	87
	Vertical Motion	109
	December '88	110
	Sleep	139