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Shared themes:Cosmic horror
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1895 · Complete work
The King in Yellow
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“A forbidden play promises exquisite beauty in its first act and total madness in its second. Dare to look upon Carcosa.”
Whispered about in Parisian studios and shadowed Manhattan parlors, a lethal stage play titled The King in Yellow drives anyone who reads beyond its first act into sublime, irrecoverable madness. Interweaving gothic romance, bohemian artist drama, and uncanny dread, this pioneering 1895 collection introduces the spectral city of Carcosa, twin suns, and the sinister Pallid Mask. Robert W. Chambers crafts a masterclass in psychological and cosmic horror, establishing enduring archetypes that profoundly shaped H. P. Lovecraft and redefined the boundaries of weird fiction.
39 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~11 min
Chapter I · I
“Nobody envied the Secretary of Fine Arts, either his cabinet position or his portfolio.”
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Episode 02
~7 min
Chapter I · II
“He looked up, and catching sight of me cried in his deep, hearty voice, “Come in, Mr. Castaigne!””
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Episode 03
~13 min
Chapter II · I
“He was very small, scarcely higher than a child of ten, but his arms were magnificently developed, and his thighs as thick as any athlete’s.”
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Episode 04
~9 min
Chapter II · II
““I suppose you mean that I was simply acknowledged never to have been insane.””
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Episode 05
~15 min
Chapter III · I
“The mirror reflected a face which was like my own, but whiter, and so thin that I hardly recognized it.”
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Episode 06
~11 min
Chapter III · II
“I gave him money, I don’t know why, and he went away without thanking me.”
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Episode 07
~8 min
Chapter I · III
““There is one thing I’m curious about,” I said, “and that is where the ray of sunlight came from.””
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Episode 08
~6 min
Chapter II · III
““In Heaven’s name, why do you keep a small lake of that gruesome stuff here of all places?””
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Episode 10
~4 min
Chapter III · IV
““Jack, I want Boris at once; and take my dearest greeting to Geneviève....””
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Episode 11
~13 min
Chapter IV · I
“It was plain I could not stay, so I locked every door, every window, and the three front and back gates, and went away.”
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Episode 12
~10 min
Chapter IV · II
“I had never yet done such a thing in my life, but now I felt a desire to mock.”
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Episode 13
~9 min
Chapter I · IV
“Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air.”
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Episode 15
~8 min
Chapter II · V
“In one thing alone, except my painting, was I serious, and that was something which lay hidden if not lost in the Breton forests.”
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Episode 16
~8 min
Chapter III · V
“If I ever had had any curiosity to read it, the awful tragedy of young Castaigne, whom I knew, prevented me from exploring its wicked pages.”
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Episode 17
~12 min
Chapter I · V
““It’s a bad place for a stranger,” old Goulven had said: “you’d better take a guide;” and I had replied, “I shall not lose myself.””
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Episode 18
~12 min
Chapter II · 6
““Mount!” cried a voice in Breton, and with a clatter of hoofs the two falconers, with falcons upon their wrists, rode into the courtyard among the hounds.”
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Episode 19
~10 min
Chapter II · 7
““That is all,—that is what I wished,” she sighed,—“Philip and Jeanne.””
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Episode 21
~6 min
Chapter II · 8
“The cat on his knee rose, arched her back, yawned, and looked up at him.”
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Episode 22
~12 min
Chapter I · 7
“The girl drew her chair nearer the window, and choosing a large needle, threaded it, knotting the thread over her fingers.”
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Episode 23
~13 min
Chapter II · 9
““You lie, you hound!” screamed Hartman, and flung the bottle in his hand straight at West’s face.”
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Episode 24
~10 min
Chapter II · 10
““Take it easy,” observed Thorne, with a remnant of manners; “you are not the host, you know.””
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Episode 25
~11 min
Chapter III · 6
““How the scoundrel did stare,” he said; “your evidence was worse than a kick, but it saved his skin for the moment at least,—and prevented complications.””
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Episode 26
~6 min
Chapter III · 7
“A hussar passed like the wind, followed by another and another, and then squadron after squadron whirled by them into the sheeted mists.”
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Episode 27
~9 min
Chapter IV · III
““Anybody hurt?” he inquired, struggling with a sleeve full of dilapidated lining.”
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Episode 28
~5 min
Chapter I · 8
“The dining-room door, just beyond, was open, and from the table in plain view a stout woman hastily arose and came toward them.”
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Episode 29
~6 min
Chapter II · 11
““I am sure I shall like it,” he replied, wondering at his own depression of spirits.”
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Episode 30
~13 min
Chapter III · 8
“The officer glared for a moment in silence, then deciding that as he was a student he was wicked, grabbed at the dog, who promptly dodged.”
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Episode 31
~13 min
Chapter IV · IV
““Yes, Squeedunk or Oshkosh, and how he ever grew up among the daisies and escaped the cows, Heaven alone knows!””
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Episode 32
~10 min
Chapter IV · V
““Oh,” she said, with a toss of her small head, “I really forget what we were speaking of.””
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Episode 33
~8 min
Chapter V · I
““You shut up,” he observed to Clifford, “it’s fate, and that settles it.””
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Episode 34
~13 min
Chapter VI
““Monsieur Clifford,” said the concierge with fine irony, “will be pleased to see you, as he retired early; in fact he has just come in.””
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Episode 35
~8 min
Chapter I · 9
““It’s a little noisy here,” said Clifford, “but you will like the fellows when you know them.””
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Episode 36
~6 min
Chapter II · 12
“Sunday morning, apropos of nothing at all, he thought of Rue Barrée, and ten seconds afterwards he saw her.”
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Episode 37
~5 min
Chapter III · 9
““N—no,—I’m very fond of flowers,” said Selby, but the statement lacked enthusiasm.”
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Episode 38
~10 min
Chapter IV · 6
“A fourth was scented, followed, outflanked, his retreat towards the door cut off, and finally captured behind the stove.”
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Episode 39
~12 min
Chapter V · II
“It would never do, and Selby felt it, so he went to see Clifford, who was convalescing on mint juleps in his garden.”
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Public-domain work (1895). Text: Project Gutenberg #8492. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more