The King in Yellow - Robert William Chambers - Books - Independently Published - 9798747560512 - May 3, 2021
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The King in Yellow

Robert William Chambers

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers published The King in Yellow in 1895 as a collection of supernatural tales that interrelated and connected to each other through an interesting conceit that prefigured the rise of postmodernism by a good half century or more. The connective tissue tying the stories together is the alleged existence of a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. That volume is considered to hold such great and dreadful power that anyone who dares read it set down upon a path toward insanity. The composition of this unusual work was undertaken by Chambers following a trip to Paris as an art student in which he immersed himself in the horrific imagery of Bohemian and Decade art movements. The result is a book that contains ten self-contained short stories and a fictional play also titled "The King in Yellow" from which excerpts are introduced throughout the stories.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 3, 2021
ISBN13 9798747560512
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 98
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 5 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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