The King in Yellow

As all those addicted to weird tales have known for years, The King in Yellow is one of the seminal books of modern horror fiction. It inspires, and continues to inspire. It prompted H.P. Lovecraft to...

I've only recently discovered this whole King in Yellow mythos and learned of its profound influence on Lovecraft and others in the genre. The four stories here make up the core of this mythos, each f...

Well, that was different.I mean, both different from other books and different from what I expected. "The King in Yellow" is a fictional book that the characters in various stories read. We readers of...

The term "weird fiction" could have been coined to describe “The King in Yellow”. First published in 1895, and recently reissued in a deluxe "gift edition” by Pushkin Press, it features elements...

This edition of Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow collects four of the original ten stories, omitting those standalone tales that don’t have anything to do with the King in Yellow “storylin...

I spent a week reading books from Buzzfeed's 'Books That Traumatised Readers' list to see if the books really were that traumatising. You can check it out here: https://youtu.be/8cstZzvmOgo...

The first time reading this book, it came upon the form of all ten stories, in a first edition copy given to me by my Grandmother. I seem to return every ten years or so, to peek into the worlds belon...

Review: THE KING IN YELLOW DELUXE EDITION (Pushkin Press) by Robert W. ChambersI first read this short collection 18 months ago, in April 2016, in an earlier edition, and I fell in love with the weird...

This is a wonderful collection of four short stories that is clearly very influential in the horror/weird fiction genres but not nearly as celebrated as it should be, so it's great to see this Deluxe ...

CARCOSA TIME, BABYYYI'll be the first person to admit that, like many, the only reason I picked up this book is because I'm an absolute fanatic for season one of True Detective (JUST season one, jesus...