Robert W Chambers

The King in Yellow illustrated Robert W Chambers

The King in Yellow is a ee-e book of quick testimonies with the aid of using the American writer Robert W. Chambers, first posted with the aid of using F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The ee-e book is known as after a play with the equal name which recurs as a motif thru a number of the testimonies. The first 1/2 of of the ee-e book functions noticeably esteemed bizarre testimonies, and the ee-e book has been defined with the aid of using critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a conventional withinside the subject of the supernatural. There are ten testimonies, the primary 4 of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces depression or insanity in folks who study it. "The Yellow Sign" stimulated a movie of the equal name launched in 2001.