"The Maker of Moons" is an 1896 supernatural short story by American writer Robert W. Chambers.
A Japanese sculptor might have produced such an impossible beast, but it is hard to believe that God did.
It looks unfinished too.Another friend arrives at the shop, a secret agent named Barris, who tells them that gold is a composite metal that can be made artificially, and that a large number of people have been making it.
A few days later the narrator, Barris, and Godfrey leave for Cardinal Woods by Starlit Lake on a hunting expedition.
While hunting, the narrator stumbles on a hidden fountain in the middle of the forest, where he meets a woman named Ysonde.
"Yian is a city", repeated Barris, "where the great river winds under the thousand bridges – where the gardens are sweet scented, and the air is filled with the music of silver bells".
"It lies", said Barris, almost querulously, "across the seven oceans and the river which is longer than from the earth to the moon".Barris says that it is the center of Yue-Laou—the Maker of Moons—and his sorcerers, the Kuen-Yuin.
"The story was serialized several times in newspaper format in the United States.,[1][2] with illustrations by artists like J. J. Sheridan,[3] and Howard V.