The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
274 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0441444814
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1980
19th CenturyClassicsFantasyFictionGothicHorrorLovecraftianMysteryShort StoriesWeird Fiction
The King in Yellow – recently featured in HBO’s hit series True Detective – is a classic collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. As an added bonus, it includes “An Inhabitant of Carcosa,” by Ambrose Bierce, another related story. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: “The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories…whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmis fear…”