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The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

Chambers, Robert W.
Lovecraft, H. P.

Hardcover

FantasyHorrorClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1557423695
ISBN13: 9781557423696
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: Sep 10 2005
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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