The Repairer of Reputations By Robert W. Chambers is one of the finest Weird Tales independent of The King in Yellow

By StillHawk

This is one of those stories that really sticks with you. I kept thinking about how much the “unreliable narrator” messes with what you’re even supposed to believe, and a bunch of the themes still feel way too current—like assisted dying, immigration, racism, wealth inequality, infrastructure, all that. It’s all packed into this “story” that leaves you kind of unsettled the whole time. And the constant intense inner thoughts make me feel like I can’t really trust anything. I honestly don’t even know what part is made up or hallucinated—does that even matter, though? I’m curious what other people think about it.