by Robert W. Chambers
Ronald W Chambers is something of an oddity in the annals of writerdom. He made a comfortable living writing popular romance - a kind of Nicholas Sparks of the 1910s and 20s - yet all of those books are now forgotten and he's now chiefly remembered for a single novel, one he wrote early on in his ca...
I give this book 5 stars solely on the basis of the first story in the collection that left me giddy with horror. The other "King in Yellow" stories were also very strong. The rest of the book was okay - I think I would have enjoyed the last three stories about life in Paris as an struggling artis...
I give this book 5 stars solely on the basis of the first story in the collection that left me giddy with horror. The other "King in Yellow" stories were also very strong. The rest of the book was okay - I think I would have enjoyed the last three stories about life in Paris as an struggling artis...
I read this because of the 2013 HA Horrors Best Book challenge. The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories first published in 1895. I liked the way a few of the stories, although completely different, were connected to “The Yellow King” or “The King in Yellow”. The reading was a bit slow fo...
I never realized until recently that Lovecraft admired and tried to emulate a few of this author's horror feel, that his stories are the godfather of the Cthulhu mythos. Strangely enough, the prose is fluid and compelling in a way that Lovecraft couldn't match. Of course, it isn't Lovecraftian prose...
A classic of weird horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories. Well, the first four stories are weird horror classics. Related only by the existence and influence of the play The King in Yellow, the second act of which will inevitably drive mad any who read it, they're a set of nice...
There are enough touches of brilliance and originality to The King in Yellow that I'm amazed I hadn't heard of Robert W. Chambers before a few weeks ago. The weird bits and the scary bits are well written and have an impact, but that's only about half of the stories in this collection. The rest is k...
5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations". although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America that features public "Lethal Chambers" where the dispirited ...
This is very much a book of two halves. The first half contains a set of stories linked by a vague connection to the "King in Yellow", a book within a book, that seems to invoke madnes in those that read it. Or does it just attune the reader to madness already in the world? The second half contains ...
Outside of Poe and Lovecraft, "The Yellow Sign" may be the most influential horror story ever written. It is the bridge between Gothic, Decadent, and Modern in horror. Unfortunately Chambers killed a lot of other trees. One of the most popular authors of his time, he is almost forgotten except fo...
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