Police!!!
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy weird, suspenseful short stories and want accessible English originals.
- Students or enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American popular fiction and magazine narrative.
- Language learners who want to practice English reading rhythm and build literary vocabulary through short pieces.
- Readers interested in Gothic and supernatural elements who are comfortable with older narrative styles.
Not a good fit for
- Readers of contemporary novels only, who may be unused to short-story collections and old-fashioned prose.
- Readers expecting tightly plotted detective fiction or realistic modern policing.
- Readers sensitive to period prejudices and expressions who do not wish to read critically.
Reading tips
- Read story by story, pausing after each to note where the atmosphere shifts.
- Watch how each tale moves from an everyday scene into strange events, and trace the author's techniques of suspense.
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first, then look them up after finishing each story.
- Read alongside other Chambers stories or weird fiction of the same era to observe genre features.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was an American novelist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His birth and death years and nationality are relatively clear in public sources, though detailed biographical information and educational background remain limited. He was a prolific writer, with 38 works held in the collection. He is best known for the short-story collection The King in Yellow, which blends weird, horror, and supernatural elements and became an important early work of weird fiction, exerting a certain influence on later horror and fantasy writing. Beyond weird fiction, his works also span romance, historical, and popular fiction, including Athalie, The Mystery of Choice, The Hidden Children, The Common Law, The Dark Star, In Search of the Unknown, and The Slayer of Souls, demonstrating a diversity of subjects and styles. Overall, his writing is notable for atmospheric construction and narrative tension, securing him a place in popular literature and the weird tradition.
