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The King in Yellow de Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

Autor Robert W. Chambers
en Limba Engleză Paperback
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are 10 stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations," "The Mask," "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign," mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781496074027
ISBN-10: 1496074025
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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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.