- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Rebel Satori Press (January 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608640191
- ISBN-13: 978-1608640195
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #384,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The central cycle of macabre stories, set in a then-future 1920's Paris and America, center on a fictitious play "The King in Yellow" the reading of which drives one mad. The color yellow was an evocative element of the decadent movement-typified by the notorious literary journal The Yellow Book and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Chambers work bridges the gap between the decadent literature of the 19th century and the fantastic pulp fiction of the twentieth. Chambers can be viewed as a direct pre-cursor to H.P. Lovecraft and his particular style of fantastic horror. Lovecraft first read The King in Yellow in the late 1920's. The stories were highly influential on the younger writer-later incorporating references to them in his own works such as "The Call of Cthulhu" and his "History of the Necronomicon."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
superbly bleak atmosphere and appropriately ambiguous horror,
By J from NY (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The King in Yellow (Paperback)
many fans of the work of robert w. chambers insist that "the king in yellow" is an actual book, the existence of which can only be taken on faith. while i am naturally skeptical about this, as i am about the "necronomicon", i find the soul crushing ambiance of cosmic doom and impending insanity far superior to many of the famed tales of lovecraft. "the repairer of reputations" is to my mind ranked with m.r. james "casting of the runes" and "the shadow over innsmouth". whether he was writing about a real book or not, chambers obviously had something weighing on his mind. creepy as hell.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Pioneer Author of the Macabre,
By orvuus (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The King in Yellow (Paperback)
Most of the other reviews here rightly criticizethe syrupy romance of Chambers and the thin character development in this book. They also entirely miss the point. This book was published in 1895, and between Poe and Ambrose Bierce the literature of fantasy and the macabre had not developed greatly. This book should simply be enjoyed for what it is -- a flawed book with some rather sinister and chilling stories. A better purchase would be "The King In Yellow And
4.0 out of 5 stars
casting back,
By Adumbrator (Seattle, Washington USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The King in Yellow (Paperback)
The King In Yellow is not what I expected; the horror more subtle, the portraits of old Paris more sensitive, and neither set of stories particularly worn for their age. It is clear to see the connection between the first and the contributions of Lovecraft and King, but I wonder particularly about the inspiration behind one of the latter, "The Prophets' Paradise", and who may have picked up _that_ thread of literature in the intervening years.
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