The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers's eerie collection built around a forbidden play that drives its readers mad, a foundational text of weird and cosmic horror.

At a glance Strange, decadent and unforgettable, its shadow falls across a century of the uncanny. There is a play, the story goes, that no one can read to the end and remain untouched… Chambers built an unsettling masterpiece around that dreadful idea. What it's about The King in Yellow is a collection of loosely linked stories, several of…

The King in Yellow is a collection of loosely linked stories, several of which orbit a fictional forbidden play of the same name, a work said to bring despair and madness to those who read it.