THE KING IN YELLOW by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. Wildside Press, 2006. Absolutely as-new. Out of an unopened box obtained from the publisher. Trade paperback (large size) reprint of the famous 1895 collection which is a masterpiece of supernatural fiction and an important influence on H.P. LOVECRAFT and his CTHULHU MYTHOS. The story "The Yellow Sign" is an absolute classic. The Lovecraft "introduction" is a quotation of the passage about Chambers from "Supernatural Horror in Literature." This book originally retailed for $15.95. (auction bid at $6.99)
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"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, 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 cultivation of the Gallic studio atmosphere made popular by Du Maurier's Trilby. The most powerful of its tales, perhaps, is The Yellow Sign, in which is introduced a silent and terrible churchyard watchman with a face like a puffy grave-worm's." -- From the Introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. ($10.63)
"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, 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 cultivation of the Gallic studio atmosphere made popular by Du Maurier's Trilby. The most powerful of its tales, perhaps, is The Yellow Sign, in which is introduced a silent and terrible churchyard watchman with a face like a puffy grave-worm's." -- From the Introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. ($10.63)
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