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The king in yellow / Robert W. Chambers ; with an introduction by David Stuart Davies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Tales of mystery & the supernaturalDescription: xi, 179 pages 20 cmISBN:
  • 1840226447
  • 9781840226447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.52 23
Other classification:
  • Heq.01
Contents:
Introduction. -- The repairer of reputations. -- The mask. -- The court of the dragon. -- The yellow sign. -- The demoiselle d'Ys. -- The prophets, paradise. -- The street of the four winds. -- The street of the first shell. -- The street of Our lady of the fields. -- Rue Barrée.
Summary: With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Böcker Böcker Löftadalens folkhögskola Roman engelska Fiction 813.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 80074467711
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Originally published in 1895.

Introduction. -- The repairer of reputations. -- The mask. -- The court of the dragon. -- The yellow sign. -- The demoiselle d'Ys. -- The prophets, paradise. -- The street of the four winds. -- The street of the first shell. -- The street of Our lady of the fields. -- Rue Barrée.

With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.

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