Robert Chambers, (born July 10, 1802, Peebles, Peeblesshire [now in Scottish Borders], Scotland—died March 17, 1871, St. Andrews, Fife), Scottish author, publisher, and, with his brother William (1800–83), founder of the firm of W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., and of Chambers’s Encyclopaedia.
“Police!!!” is a volume of xenobiology, cryptozoology, weird monsters, and strange relics from the fossil eras; things which ought never to have walked upon the face of this earth. But they have walked, and one man has seen them and told the world, only to cause a certain madness among the people.
