The King In Yellow Book Cover
The printing quality was also poor some pages were printed at an angle and some words are difficult to read.
The king in yellow book cover. The printing quality was also poor some pages were printed at an angle and some words are difficult to read. The king in yellow f. 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. But the illustrations in this edition are rubish poor quality and irrelavant to the text.
The king in yellow is a great book well worth reading. The king in yellow by robert w. This book not only contains the short stories about the king in yellow but also several unrelated ones. Get the free version instead.
This book not only contains the short stories about the king in yellow but also several unrelated ones. The king in yellow usually takes the form of a gigantic human dressed in tattered yellow robes occasionally with wings or a halo. The king in yellow the book full cover of the king in yellow 1895 likely 2nd or 3rd edition the king in yellow is a collection of short stories by robert w. The king in yellow 1895 the maker of moons 1896 the mystery of choice 1897 and in search of the unknown 1904.
Came with a different cover than pictured the cover was plain brown with no illustrations. It usually wears the pallid mask which conceals the hideousness of its appearance. Chambers is a classic collection of ten short stories with a creepy supernatural feel and a book within a book. Worship of this being has increased dramatically in recent years and many artists and intellectuals have fallen under the king s sway.
The king in yellow and other horror stories is a collection drawn from four books of short stories. These twelve stories are certainly dated and might not be counted among the best short fiction ever written but they all. Marion zimmer bradley drew a number of names from the king in yellow for her darkover series including hastur hali camilla and cassilda. The first five stories all have one recurring item linking them together.
Bradley mentioned chambers as an influence in a 1980 interview. Chambers whose first edition appeared in 1895. Came with a different cover than pictured the cover was plain brown with no illustrations.