Misplaced Pages

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Tree of Heaven" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Tree of Heaven is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, author of The King in Yellow, The Maker of Moons, and The Mystery of Choice. Mostly set in New York with a snowy nocturnal backdrop, the stories are light and humorous romantic tales, several of which feature the weird.

Published in America by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1907, with pictorial cloth design, and by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1907, with dark green cloth and pictorial paste-down. Published in Britain by Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, London, in 1908.

Contents

• "The Carpet of Belshazzar"
• "The Sign of Venus"
• "The Case of Mr. Helmer"
• "The Tree of Dreams"
• "The Bridal Pair"
• "Ex Curia"
• "The Golden Pool"
• "Out of the Depths"
• "The Swastika"
• "The Ghost of Chance"

External links

The full text of The Tree of Heaven (collection) at Wikisource

This article about a collection of short stories published in the 1900s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1907 short story collections
• American short story collections
• D. Appleton & Company books
• Grosset & Dunlap books
• 1900s short story stubs
• Short story collection stubs