The King in Yellow (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural) - Softcover

Chambers, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840226447 ISBN 13: 9781840226447

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2010

Synopsis

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

‘... I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet.’

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’.

About this title

Review:

'Altogether one of the greatest weird tales ever written' --H.P. Lovecraft

About the Author:

Robert William Chambers (1865 - 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers had one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines. --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1840226447
• ISBN 13: 9781840226447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192