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The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

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
The River of Night's Dreaming

The River of Night's Dreaming

The King in Yellow

Karl Edward Wagner

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Whispers III (1981), edited by Stuart David Schiff. The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Terror (1991) edited by Stephen Jones. It is included in the collections In a Lonely Place (1983), Unthreatened by the Morning Light (1989), Karl Edward Wagner: Masters of the Weird Tale (2011) and Where the Summer Ends (2012).