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The king in yellow by robert w chambers5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His universe is one of depravity, madness, and oblivion. Chambers – drove men mad with its eldritch lore of black stars and cyclopean towers decades before Lovecraft’s “Necronomicon,” and Chambers’ allure continues today: he has influenced Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, been adapted by Derleth and the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, and made appearances in HBO’s “True Detective” series.Ĭhambers’ supernatural fiction was not limited to “The King in Yellow,” however, and here you will find mystical stories of dying men’s fantasies, parallel dimensions, murder mysteries, love affairs with the dead, an amphibious gill man (who inspired Lovecraft’s “Innsmouth” folk and the Creature from the Black Lagoon), the skeletal ghost of a satanic priest, drowned corpses roaming New York parks, the resurrection of an ancient Egyptian dancer, and hooded ferrymen who lure you onto the river during blizzards. “The King in Yellow” – a play invented by Robert W. The Yellow Sign is widely acknowledged as one of the finest horror stories ever. ![]() One woman teasingly read it against the wishes of her lover and died hours later he was beaten by a man who had been dead for months and died before he could receive last rites. One went to his church in search of absolution but found a temple built to madness in its place. One man demanded that he be made emperor of America, committed a vicious murder, and died in an asylum for the criminally insane. Reading it made men go completely insane. Chambers First edition, first printing of one of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and. ![]()
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