The King In Yellow

Tennyson neely in 1895.

The king in yellow. Each of these stories surprised me they were macabre and quite unsettling. With natasha linton hans bangala liv smith paul stephen lambeth. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. The king in yellow is a book of short stories by the american writer robert w.

Hastur the unspeakable one the king in yellow him who is not to be named assatur xastur h aaztre or kaiwan is an entity of the cthulhu mythos. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories and the book has been described by critics such as e. The king in yellow is comprised of ten short stories. Chambers and published in 1895.

The king in yellow is a collection of 9 short stories and a few poems. There are ten stories the first four of which men. 1 2 3 4 5 hastur first appeared in ambrose bierce s short story haïta the shepherd 1893 as a benign god of shepherds.

The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or victorian gothic fiction but the work also touches on mythology fantasy mystery science fiction and romance. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first 5 6 of which mainly deal with the aforementioned. The titular king in yellow a play that if read drives the reader mad as well as the dreaded yellow sign.