The King in Yellow (1895) by: Robert W. Chambers: Collection of Short Stories by Robert W. Chambers.

ISBN-10
1727875419
ISBN-13
9781727875416
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
2018-10-15
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Robert W Chambers

Description

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations," "The Mask," "In the Court of the Dragon," and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.

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