Details

Subject(s)

• Horror tales, American [Browse]

Related name

• Bleiler, Everett Franklin, 1920- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

Dover mystery, detective, and other fiction [More in this series]

Summary note

This collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers takes its title from The King in Yellow, a fictional drama so laced with the essence of purest poison that it drives anyone foolish enough to read it insane. Although suppressed by authorities shortly after publication, copies of the play continue to seduce and destroy unsuspecting men and women who fall under its spell. The King in Yellow was a bestseller in its day, and was later praised by horror emeritus H.P. Lovecraft as a book that really achieves notable heights of cosmic horror.

Notes

Originally published: 1970.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The yellow sign
• The repairer of reputations
• The Demoiselle d'Ys
• The mask
• In the Court of the Dragon
• The maker of moons
• A pleasant evening
• The messenger
• The key to grief
• The harbor-master
• In quest of the dingue
• Is the ux extinct?

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ISBN

0486437507

LCCN

2004047827^^

OCLC

54865301

RCP

H - S

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