Robert W. Chambers published The King in Yellow in 1895 as a collection of supernatural tales that interrelated and connected to each other through an interesting conceit that prefigured the rise of postmodernism by a good half century or more. The connective tissue tying the stories together is the alleged existence of a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. That volume is considered to hold such great and dreadful power that anyone who dares read it set down upon a path toward insanity. The composition of this unusual work was undertaken by Chambers following a trip to Paris as an art student in which he immersed himself in the horrific imagery of Bohemian and Decade art movements. The result is a book that contains ten self-contained short stories and a fictional play also titled "The King in Yellow" from which excerpts are introduced throughout the stories.

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	3. maj 2021
ISBN13	9798747560512
Forlag	Independently Published
Antal sider	98
Mål	216 × 280 × 5 mm · 249 g
Sprog	Engelsk