""The King in Yellow", a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmic fear in spite of uneven interest and a somewhat trivial and affected cultiva[...]
"Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow,[...]
I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vague[...]
”Kungen i gult” är en serie vagt sammanlänkade noveller, vilka som gemensam bakgrund har en ohygglig och förbjuden bok; ”den når verkligen anmärkningsvärda höjder av kosmisk fruktan”, sade H. P. Lovecraft som lovordade boken i sin ”Supernatural Horror in Literature”. Mest berömd [...]
"Om jag visste", sade han, "skulle jag berätta för dig. Men, nu när jag tänker efter, skulle jag bli utskrattad om jag gav mig i kast med detaljer med en vetenskapsman. Ni kommer att få höra om hamnkaptenen - kanske kommer ni att se hamnkaptenen. Om så sker vore jag glad att få prata med er [...]
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.[...]