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The King in Yellow Hardcover – March 1, 2006

by Robert W. Chambers (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,712 ratings
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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,
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Indypublish.Com
  4. Publication date
    March 1, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    5.91 x 0.75 x 8.86 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1421990253
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1421990255
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indypublish.Com (March 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421990253
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421990255
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.91 x 0.75 x 8.86 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,712 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Missing the dedication.
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Missing the dedication.
The original had a dedication to Robert Chambers’ Brother. Which was a nice lead in from the original printing. It is omitted in this version. That being said, it’s still a fairly accurate representation of the original work. A must have for any Lovecraft fan.
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Steven P. Unger
5.0 out of 5 stars Hardcover edition of a pre-Lovecraft Classic
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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I love the modernity of thought and language in this timeless tome, unlike Melville's stilted prose that makes his stories hard to follow. The suicide chamber is right out of Soylent Green, written eighty years before the film. I'm so glad to have this book again, this time in inexpensive hardcover.
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Thomas A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Missing the dedication.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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The original had a dedication to Robert Chambers’ Brother. Which was a nice lead in from the original printing. It is omitted in this version. That being said, it’s still a fairly accurate representation of the original work. A must have for any Lovecraft fan.
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Thomas A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Missing the dedication.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
The original had a dedication to Robert Chambers’ Brother. Which was a nice lead in from the original printing. It is omitted in this version. That being said, it’s still a fairly accurate representation of the original work. A must have for any Lovecraft fan.
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Veronica
4.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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My 16 yr old son loved it
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5.0 out of 5 stars I read it backwards
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018
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A weird book needs to be approached in a weird way. Accordingly, I read the book backwards, chapter wise, starting with the last story “Rue Barree” then proceeding back to “The Repairer of Reputations.”

It’s been suggested that the horrors of the first stories, clear and obvious, gradual ripple out into barely imperceptible connections in the later tales. I wanted to see if I could pick up on these diminishing currents by swimming back into the central vortex of horrors rather than away from them. I can’t say that I encountered any unconcealed terrors in these further out tales, although hints of dark atmosphere seem to exist, shoehorned into otherwise bright sunlit scenes of gardens, admitting disquiet notes into peaceful composition.

More certain, what I did encounter was the use of the word “yellow”, usually in a description of a lamp (The Street of the First Shell), but also, more than once, as a cat’s eye color (several times in The Street of the Four Winds), and quite notably, in the final story, “Rue Barree,“ where the protagonist has a horrid nightmare of drowning in a “river of yellow ochre.” No one seems to reference this yellow nightmare mentioned so close to the book‘s ending. Furthermore, if any one of these stories had mentioned the yellow sign or the king, even just once, that story would fall right in place with the rest.

Approach it like a Beatle album, with some stories having clear thematic connection, while others, though less adherent to the theme, still foster uneasy impressions and unresolved episodes, with perhaps two or three fillers thrown in for literary completeness.
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Rue Barree is the name of a street, but also the name of an elusive lady who lives on that street, for no one knows her real name. Cryptic and puzzling ending, darkness and marble walls, almost funereal.
The Court of the Dragon is the name of the place where the main character lives. A very good story… poe-ish elements abound, especially Poe‘s “The Man in the Crowd.’’
The Demoiselle D’ys: Astounding story with a great ending.
The Street of the Four Winds: a thin and hungry cat befriends a struggling artist. Very nice collar on the cat, but it’s very loose about its neck. Better find this poor cats true owner…then again.
The Street of Our Lady of the Field: Dr. Byram, an old family friend, helps Hastings(Hastur?) find lodging on the Street of Our Lady of the Field. Hastings is introduced to Valentine at the garden. Weird atmosphere, a soldier playing a drum, an elusive Valentine, she wants to leave. A train ride like no other, or was it a train ride? I’ll assume it was a train ride.
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Dennis A. Turner
3.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre and Mysterious Reprinting of Chambers' Original Mystery Series.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017
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This is a very frustrating reprint of "The King in Yellow", Robert W Chambers' horror short stories. It appears that this book was quickly assembled by scanning a printing of the original 1895 book. The original was 4 3/8 inches x 8 1/8 inches but it is reprinted on 8 x 10 inch paper.. The original text of nearly 300 pages is redone an approximately half that number of pages. The cover and table of contents of the current volume are given as photocopies of the original, However, the inner pages are apparently scanned from the original using a program that converts the scanned images into word processor text, and the text was spread out over the entire 8 x 10 inch new paper. Not a bad idea, in concept as a way to capture the original, but it was not done properly. The problem is that such programs often do not convert the scanned image into correct words and letters. The new text needs to be proofed, and corrected. This was clearly NOT done. The result is a host very badly spelled (even incomprehensible) words and grammatical atrocities. For example, a double quotation mark may come out as a pair of exclamation points. Letters are converted incorrectly (an "a" becomes an "o"; a "d" becomes "cl") The scanning also picked up the original book's page headings (the book's title, "The King in Yellow" and the titles of the various short stories, such as: "The Mask") and inserts them seemingly randomly in the reprinted text. So one finds paragraphs and conversations with seemingly random inserts of "THE KIN GIN YELLOW" , or "THEM ASK" The original apparently also had super illuminated first letters at the beginnings of chapters and these are inserted randomly in the reprinted text. There are occasional large blank spaces where the original probably had blank pages between chapters, but these fill only portions of the new pages with chapters starting midway along the pages. There are no page number in the new text and the table of contents (copied form the original) is useless to find anything.. It CAN actually be entertaining to try and figure out what is going on. And it CAN be a bit of a game to figure out what the text is actually supposed to be saying and why random numbers and punctuation marks appear where they do. But, if one is actually trying to simply READ this book, it's a frustration. There is no traditional initial page with publication information, no Library of Congress info (It's apparently bar scanned on the last page) and the only information about the current book is on the last page saying "Made in the USA/ San Bernardino CA/21 December 2016". I got my copy only a couple weeks later. It's a bizarre book, but right in keeping with the bizarre content of Robert W. Chanbers original stories. It's as if there is a contemporary mystery to be solved, harking back to the mysteries laid out in the original stories.. And one had better beware! Or it's simply a rapidly and cheaply printed (I can't say "published") rip-off.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Honestly, Signalis. Also cool cover of Hastur.
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023
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I unno, I played signalis and this was referenced a lot.
Another game that featured was the japanese game, Iru! as a miss-able easter egg in the Principals room.

I don't like reading, but so far, I am actually liking it.
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Kirk Taskila
5.0 out of 5 stars must read
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023
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For any fan of Lovecraft, this was an inspiration. Mysterious and creepy, a perfect fit for cthulian horror. Read before or after you read Lovecraft.
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Kyle M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Experience
Reviewed in Canada on December 23, 2023
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Item was as expected and arrived quickly and in good condition. Great read, thanks!
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Marcelo chiechelski
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
Reviewed in Brazil on April 9, 2023
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Muito boas as histórias, especialmente pra quem curte dark souls
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Steven Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2023
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Strange little book. Not what I was expecting, but if you are a fan of H P Lovecraft it is worth reading.
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Alexandre
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the buy
Reviewed in Spain on October 11, 2023
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Very interesting book, a different genre worth the read since it's not too extensive. Also like the material in the cover.
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Jacopo
1.0 out of 5 stars Cover is of the worst quality of paper ever, ripped during delivery
Reviewed in Italy on May 22, 2023
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As pic related, the cover is made of some kind of toilet paper. Don't buy this.
I did a refund and they sent me another AGAIN with a ruptured cover. Just terrible.
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Jacopo
1.0 out of 5 stars Cover is of the worst quality of paper ever, ripped during delivery
Reviewed in Italy on May 22, 2023
As pic related, the cover is made of some kind of toilet paper. Don't buy this.
I did a refund and they sent me another AGAIN with a ruptured cover. Just terrible.
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