Kazhdyy rasskaz Chambersa — slovno ozherele tonchayshey raboty, a v tselom vse ih mozhno nazvat svyazuyuschim zvenom mezhdu literaturoy Severnoy Ameriki i toy mrachnoy i nabozhnoy fantasticheskoy prozoy, kotoruyu nezadolgo do nego predstavil frantsuz Marsel SHvob v svoem sbornike «Korol v zolotoy maske» (1892), perepisav ryad legend i istoricheskih epizodov v sverhestestvennom klyuche.