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The King in Yellow de Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

Autor Robert W. Chambers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2010
The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance. The first four stories in the collection involve an imaginary two-act play of the same title.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781617200885
ISBN-10: 1617200883
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: SMK Books

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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.

Notă biografică

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) is a minor figure in the American literary canon proper - he spent most of his long career writing popular romance and adventure fiction that sold well but is now largely forgotten - yet he holds an outsized and well-documented place in the history of weird and horror fiction on the strength of a single early book. The King in Yellow (1895), a linked story collection built around a fictional, forbidden play that drives its readers mad, directly influenced H. P. Lovecraft, who borrowed Chambers's invented god Hastur and the symbol of the Yellow Sign into his own mythos, and through that lineage Chambers's imagery has traveled far beyond what his own later career would suggest. The inclusion case here is not about representation but about a genre canon habitually underweighted on general-fiction shelves: cosmic horror and weird fiction trace a direct, documentable line from Poe through Chambers to Lovecraft and onward, and that lineage is incomplete without its middle link. Chambers is also a case study in how a writer can be simultaneously canonical to a genre and near-invisible to the literary mainstream - worth noting for any collection trying to represent horror's history rather than only its most famous names. Contemporary readers reliably rediscover The King in Yellow through pop culture: the HBO series True Detective (2014) named-checked its Carcosa and the Yellow Sign directly, sending a new generation of readers back to the 1895 source, and the book still unsettles on its own terms - atmospheric, fragmentary, more interested in dread than explanation. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, no word-division - lets low-vision and aging horror readers follow that thread back to its origin without strain.