The King in Yellow E-Book

Robert W. Chambers

• Herausgeber: Arcadia Press
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

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 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 has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten 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.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.

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Robert W. Chambers

THE KING IN YELLOW

Copyright © Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

(1895)

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

The King in Yellow

1 - The Repairer of Reputations

2 - The Mask

3 - In the Court of the Dragon

4 - The Yellow Sign

5 - The Demoiselle D’ys

6 - The Prophets’ Paradise

7 - The Street of the Four Winds

8 - The Street of the First Shell

9 - The Street of Our Lady of the Fields

10 - Rue Barrée

THE KING IN YELLOW

Along the shore the cloud waves break,

The twin suns sink beneath the lake,

The shadows lengthen

In Carcosa.

Strange is the night where black stars rise,

And strange moons circle through the skies

But stranger still is

Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,

Where flap the tatters of the King,

Must die unheard in

Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead;

Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed

Shall dry and die in

Lost Carcosa.

Cassilda’s Song in