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The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

Start date: August 1, 2024

Finish date: August 31, 2024

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Aug 30, 2024 GONZA rated it did not like it

Shelves: ebk, abbandonato, amazon

At the umpteenth story where I struggled to get past the second page, I gave up. Unfortunately, the topos of the book driving people crazy is one of my favorites, but here it has little or nothing to do with it, or at least I couldn't get there.

All'ennesimo racconto in cui faticavo a superare la seconda pagina ho mollato. Purtroppo il topos del libro che fa impazzire é uno dei miei preferiti, ma qui c'entra poco o niente o quanto meno non sono riuscita ad arrivarci. ...more

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Jul 26, 2024 ForestGardenGal rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: type-fantasy-paranormal, genre-fiction, 1800-1900-victorian-colonialism, classics-published-50-years-ago, location-france, type-horror, location-new-york, type-short-stories-essays, subject-art

This collection of short stories features four fantastical and delightful near horror stories threaded together by a mysterious play for which this anthology is entitled. I understand there is at least one edition of this anthology that contains only these four stories.

Unfortunately, the edition I picked up also contains six additional stories that are oddly incongruent with the first four- they are scenes from Paris' Latin Quarter and while they are interesting and well written, in comparison w ...more

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Jun 18, 2014 slanderoid rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This could have easily be one of my favorite books. Seven out of the ten short stories appeal to my love of the macabre in ways that most stories simply can't. The idea of a book called "The King in Yellow" that's about a play called "The King in Yellow" that causes people to go mad and die after a person reads it is decently terrifying on its own, but to couple it with the Lovecraftian imagery that Robert Chambers employs is icing on the rotten, maggot-infested cake.

However.

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