The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
With its mix of weird, imaginative horror, science fiction, romance, and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The Yellow King is a classic masterpiece of bizarre fiction. This series of vaguely related stories is connected with the existence of a terrifying and repressed book that brings fear, madness, and spectral tragedy to all who read it. The air of futility and doom penetrates these pages like a sweet sneaky poison. Do you dare to read it? This collection was voted the most important book in Amercian supernatural fiction among Poe and his contemporaries. G.P. Lovecraft, the creator of the famous Cthulu Mythos, whose own fiction was heavily influenced by this book, noted that the Yellow King "reached remarkable heights of cosmic fear." The stories inspired the production of the HBO series True Detective.
