Name: The King in Yellow
Price: 35.83 RON
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Author: Robert W. Chambers
ISBN: 9781840226447

The King in Yellow: Carrier Press

Robert W. Chambers

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2026

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

There is a play that no one can read twice. Its first act is harmless. Everyone who reads into the second act is ruined - driven mad, damned, or changed forever. It is called The King in Yellow, and the genius of Robert W. Chambers' 1895 masterpiece is that he never lets you read it. You only meet the wreckage it leaves behind.

First published in 1895, The King in Yellow is one of the most influential works of weird fiction ever written. Its cursed play, its lost city of Carcosa, and its dread symbol the Yellow Sign haunted H. P. Lovecraft, seeded the Cthulhu Mythos, and returned to shock a new generation through HBO's True Detective. This is the source - complete, unabridged, and newly brought to life.

This Annotated & Illustrated Edition includes:

- All ten original stories, complete and unabridged

- An original introduction tracing Chambers' strange genius and the Bierce → Chambers → Lovecraft → True Detective lineage

- A headnote before every story to guide first-time readers

- A Glossary of the Yellow Mythos - Carcosa, Hastur, Hali, the Pallid Mask, the Yellow Sign, and more

- Twelve original illustrations in the decadent fin-de-siècle style of the Yellow Nineties

From the disorienting future-New York of "The Repairer of Reputations" to the pure terror of "The Yellow Sign," this is weird fiction's founding nightmare, presented as it deserves.

The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow are waiting.

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Notă biografică

Robert William Chambers (1865 - 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. Robert was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893 and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories published in 1895. This included several famous weird short stories which are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described The King in Yellow as one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. It was also strongly admired by H. P. Lovecraft and his circle. Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons, The Mystery of Choice and The Tree of Heaven, but none earned him as much success as The King in Yellow. Some of Chambers's work contains elements of science fiction, such as In Search of the Unknown and Police!!!, about a zoologist who encounters monsters. Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers had one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.