Fiction: The King in Yellow

[Paul Ferguson]

"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895 (316 pages). The book contains nine short stories and a sequence of poems; while the first stories belong to the genres of supernatural horror and weird fiction, The King in Yellow progressively transitions towards a more light-hearted tone, ending with romantic stories devoid of horror or supernatural elements. The horror stories are highly esteemed, and it has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi, and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

""The Mask" is a short story in four parts published by Robert W. Chambers in his 1895 collection The King in Yellow. The story involves the themes of fantasy and alchemy, as well as art, love, and uncanny science, and contains the motifs of the King in Yellow. The main fantasy element in the story is a mysterious solution capable of turning living beings into marble sculptures."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_(...ort_story)

Free downloads here:

https://archive.org/search?query=%22the+...+yellow%22

Kickstarter for Collector's Edition here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs...gory_id=47