KING IN YELLOW AND OTHER HORROR STORIES .including; YELLOW SIGN; MADK; COURT DRAGON; MAKER OF MOONS; MESSENGER; KEY TO GRIEF; UX EXTINCT? others; Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction

CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. & BLEILER, E. F.

ISBN 10: 0486437507 / ISBN 13: 9780486437507

Published by Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1970

VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright; YELLOW TITLES TO GLOSSY BLACK colored PAPER COVERS. SHOWING PILE OF OLD BOOKS & WHISPY PRESENCE. ; 288pg pages. Seller Inventory # 143628

Synopsis:

A treasured source for Lovecraft, Howard, and others, this collection endures as a work of remarkable power. Includes all the stories from The King in Yellow ― "Yellow Sign," "Repairer of Reputations," "Demoiselle d'Ys," and others ― plus stories from other sources, including three early sci-fi fantasies from In Search of the Unknown. 12 total.

About the Author: The King in Yellow and The Call of Cthulhu By Robert W. Chambers H. P. Lovecraft The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are 10 stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001. The Call of Cthulhu is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims the irregular sonnet The Kraken, written in 1830 by Alfred Tennyson, is a major inspiration for Lovecraft's story, as both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from his slumber in an apocalyptic age.

Bibliographic Details

Title: KING IN YELLOW AND OTHER HORROR STORIES ....
Publisher: Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: paperback
Illustrator: Illustrated by MENCES, JEFF A. COVER DESIGN
Condition: Very Good
Edition: UNABRIDGED REPUBLICATION EDITION.