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With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?

This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.

Table of Contents:

• The Repairer of Reputations
• The Mask
• In the Court of the Dragon
• The Yellow Sign
• The Demoiselle d'Ys
• The Prophets' Paradise
• The Street Of The Four Winds
• The Street of the First Shell
• The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
• Rue Barrée

Contents:

• xi - Introduction (The Yellow Sign and Other Stories) - (2000) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• 7 - The Repairer of Reputations - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 33 - The Mask - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 47 - In the Court of the Dragon - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 54 - The Yellow Sign - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 70 - The Demoiselle d'Ys - (1895) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 83 - The Prophets' Paradise - (1895) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 97 - The Maker of Moons - (1896) - novella by Robert W. Chambers
• 135 - A Pleasant Evening - (1896) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 159 - Introduction (The Mystery of Choice) - (1897) - poem by Robert W. Chambers
• 163 - The Purple Emperor - (1897) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 180 - Pompe Funèbre - (1897) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 183 - The Messenger - (1897) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 214 - The White Shadow - (1897) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 246 - Passeur - (1897) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 250 - The Key to Grief - (1897) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 263 - In Search of the Unknown - (1904) - novel by Robert W. Chambers
• 433 - The Tracer of Lost Persons (excerpt) - (1906) - shortfiction by Robert W. Chambers
• 469 - The Carpet of Belshazzar - (1907) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 487 - The Sign of Venus - (1903) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 496 - The Case of Mr. Helmer - (1904) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 504 - The Bridal Pair - (1902) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 516 - Out of the Depths - (1904) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 525 - Police!!! - (1915) - collection by Robert W. Chambers
• 529 - Foreword (Police!!!) - (1915) - poem by Robert W. Chambers
• 533 - Preface (Police!!!) - (1915) - essay by Robert W. Chambers
• 535 - The Third Eye - (1915) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 556 - The Immortal - (1915) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 571 - The Ladies of the Lake - (1915) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 592 - One Over - (1915) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers
• 612 - Un Peu d'Amour - (1915) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 630 - The Eggs of the Silver Moon - (1915) - shortstory by Robert W. Chambers

The book follows a young man who works for the Bronx Zoo as an ornithologist. He gets sent on exotic travels around the world as part of his job. He has strange adventures, or hilarious clamity, during his search for odd and extinct animals that are supposed to still exist. He can never quite realize his goal, but always finds a pretty girl to fall in love with, only to have her wisked away at the last moment.