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The King in Yellow
- Author
- Robert W. Chambers
- Narrator
- Willie Repoley
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 2 June 2026
- Run Time
- 3 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.
The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair:
The King in Yellow.
These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's
True Detective.
Critics Review
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Altogether one of the greatest weird tales ever written
H.P. Lovecraft
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Lovecraft fans and connoisseurs of the weird will enjoy discovering this pioneering author
Booklist
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Fantastic classic horror
Looking Glass Reads
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A legendary yet too little understood work... Chambers' Carcosa Mythos is now almost as popular as H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
LA Review of Books
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A masterful collection
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Details
- Author
- Robert W. Chambers
- Narrator
- Willie Repoley
- Duration
- 3 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9781807760250
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's True Detective.
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