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PublisherWildside Press, LLC

ISBN-101557423687

ISBN-139781557423689

eBay Product ID (ePID)128286084

Product Key Features

Publication Year2005

TopicClassics, Fantasy / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Horror

Book TitleKing in Yellow

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert W. Chambers

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal741.5/941

Synopsis"Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmic fear in spite of uneven interest and a somewhat trivial and affected cultivation of the Gallic studio atmosphere made popular by Du Maurier's Trilby. The most powerful of its tales, perhaps, is The Yellow Sign, in which is introduced a silent and terrible churchyard watchman with a face like a puffy grave-worm's." -- From the Introduction by H.P. Lovecraft.