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

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

About the Book-The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer 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. Excerpt-In the city of New York the summer of 1899 was signalized by the dismantling of the Elevated Railroads. The summer of 1900 will live in the memories of New York people for many a cycle; the Dodge Statue was removed in that year. In the following winter began that agitation for the repeal of the laws prohibiting suicide which bore its final fruit in the month of April, 1920, when the first Government Lethal Chamber was opened on Washington Square. About the Author- Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King In Yellow, published in 1895.

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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.