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The King In Yellow (The Book)

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The King In Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose first edition appeared in 1895. The book could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic, but it also touches on fantasy, mystery, war, mythology, and science-fiction. Most of the stories are loosely connected by three main devices: * A play in book-form entitled The King In Yellow * A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity of the same name * An eerie emblem or symbol called The Yellow Sign

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The King In Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose first edition appeared in 1895. The book could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic, but it also touches on fantasy, mystery, war, mythology, and science-fiction. Most of the stories are loosely connected by three main devices: * A play in book-form entitled The King In Yellow * A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity of the same name * An eerie emblem or symbol called The Yellow Sign The stories are often macabre in tone. The most frequent setting is Paris and the central characters are usually decadents and artists. Those characters who read the play The King in Yellow go mad or meet horrible dooms.