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Name: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
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Author: Robert W. Chambers
ISBN: 9781539053446

By: Robert W. Chambers

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CategoryFiction
LanguageEnglish
Pages224
Published1895
File size3.0 MB
FormatPDF
ISBN9781539053446

Key ideas from the book

The collection offers examples of American horror and fantasy fiction from the 1890s.
Its described scenarios include a play associated with doom and a discovery that transforms living flesh to stone.
Readers encounter supernatural material involving a cult and powers from beyond.
A time-displacement premise places a lost traveler 400 years in the past.
The collection may help readers explore the overlap of horror, fantasy, and paranormal fiction.

About The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

Published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow is an American collection associated with horror, fantasy, and the paranormal. Its strange and unsettling premises include a play said to bring doom to its readers, a discovery that turns living flesh to stone, a cult devoted to powers from beyond, and a traveler displaced 400 years into the past.

Readers interested in early American horror and fantasy will find a collection that brings supernatural and uncanny elements into short fiction. It may also suit those exploring the history of American literature or looking for a work from the 1890s that crosses genre boundaries.

About Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was an American writer who studied art in New York and Paris and worked as an illustrator before turning to fiction. He is best known for The King in Yellow (1895), a collection of uncanny stories blending supernatural horror with decadent settings and the unsettling fictional play of its title. Chambers also wrote many popular historical and romantic novels, giving his career a wider range than his early reputation for weird fiction alone suggests.