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The King In Yellow
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Indypublish.Com
Publication date
December 31, 2004
Pages
272
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781414221625
ISBN-10
1414221622
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Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$80.99
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A Dreamer's Tales: Annotated Edition | The Night Land | The House on the Borderland | The House on the Borderland | The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) | The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft | The Elementals | Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe | Neonomicon
A Dreamer's Tales: Annotated Edition | The Night Land | The House on the Borderland | The House on the Borderland | The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) | The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft | The Elementals | Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe | Neonomicon
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
The King in Yellow is a fascinating, almost two-faced work. The first half consists of five legendary weird tales, loosely tied together by a fictional play—the eponymous King in Yellow—that drives those who read it mad. Celebrated by authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Lin Carter, these stories are classic tales of madness, despair, and strange happenings.
With the fifth tale the reader finds a sort of palate-cleansing collection of short prose-poems leading into the last four stories, which take a sharp turn away from the weird and into the romantic. The concluding tales are set in the Parisian art world.
In modern times The King in Yellow enjoys a reputation largely due to the strengh of its first half of macabre tales, but by no means does that make the second half less enjoyable. Both halves are written in a quick, light prose style that demonstrates why Chambers was a best-seller in his day.
The King in Yellow is a fascinating, almost two-faced work. The first half consists of five legendary weird tales, loosely tied together by a fictional play—the eponymous King in Yellow—that drives those who read it mad. Celebrated by authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Lin Carter, these stories are classic tales of madness, despair, and strange happenings.
With the fifth tale the reader finds a sort of palate-cleansing collection of short prose-poems leading into the last four stories, which take a sharp turn away from the weird and into the romantic. The concluding tales are set in the Parisian art world.
In modern times The King in Yellow enjoys a reputation largely due to the strengh of its first half of macabre tales, but by no means does that make the second half less enjoyable. Both halves are written in a quick, light prose style that demonstrates why Chambers was a best-seller in his day.
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