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The King in Yellow
English BooksWhale Edition by Robert W. Chambers
A strange collection of decadent, supernatural, and psychological tales.
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The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow gathers linked stories of art, madness, forbidden drama, and uncanny influence. Chambers’s collection became a landmark of weird fiction and literary horror.
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Robert W. Chambers died in 1933, and The King in Yellow was first published in 1895; these dates support the public-domain basis for this English edition.
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The King in Yellow
By Robert W. Chambers
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“Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.”
Cassilda’s Song in “The King in Yellow,”
Act i, Scene 2.
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Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02Dedicated to My Brother
- 03THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS
- 04I
- 05II
- 06III
- 07THE MASK
- 08I
- 09II
- 10III
- 11IV
- 12THE YELLOW SIGN
- 13I
- 14II
- 15III
- 16THE DEMOISELLE D’YS
- 17I
- 18II
- 19THE PROPHETS’ PARADISE
- 20THE STREET OF THE FOUR WINDS
- 21I
- 22II
- 23THE STREET OF THE FIRST SHELL
- 24I
- 25II
- 26III
- 27IV
- 28THE STREET OF OUR LADY OF THE FIELDS
- 29I
- 30II
- 31III
- 32IV
- 33V
- 34VI
- 35RUE BARRÉE
- 36I
- 37II
- 38III
- 39IV
- 40V
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