The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers & Robert Robert William Chambers
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: English, German, Spanish
- Content type: Fiction
"The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers is a collection of short stories published in 1895. The book opens with supernatural horror tales connected by a forbidden play that drives readers to madness. A mysterious entity called the King in Yellow, an eerie Yellow Sign, and the cursed play itself haunt the first four stories, set in a future 1920s America and Paris. The collection gradually shifts tone, ending with romantic tales, but the opening horror stories have earned acclaim as classics of weird fiction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Tales” and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the description and “Tales” in the subject metadata.
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Editions
Open Library reports 479 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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The Online Books Page curated catalog record | — | — | — | — | Source listed online copy | |
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 2005-07-01 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
Subjects
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Literature
- 19th century
- United States
- Fiction, general
- Fiction, horror
- American literature
- American fiction
- American Horror tales
- Short stories, American
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- Horror tales, American
- American Short stories
- Fiction, fantasy, paranormal
- Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies
- American Paranormal fiction
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- Open Library reports 479 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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- Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PS1284 .K5
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