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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers · 1895 · Horror & Gothic
A forbidden play casts its shadow over four unsettling tales, followed by visions of lost time, love, art and bohemian life in Paris and beyond.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 23 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Ten Tales — Two Continents, Many Thresholds: New York, Paris, Brittany and imagined Carcosa.
St. Barnabé & Cour du DragonThe organ loft and the narrowing Cour du Dragon define the spatial descent of Chambers's third tale.
The World of The King in Yellow — forbidden art, Carcosa, Paris streets, lost time and renunciation.
Faces Beneath the Yellow Sign — the principal figures of ten independent tales.
Hildred Castaigne — The Cousin of a King.
Mr. Wilde — The Repairer of Reputations.
Readers of the Forbidden Play — fascination turning toward dread.
Hildred and Mr. Wilde over the imperial manuscript in Bleecker Street.
This edition
- Title
- The King in Yellow
- Author
- Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933)
- First published
- 1895
- Illustrated plates
- 54 original artworks · 23 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 10 · about 71,804 words
- Reading time
- 4 h 47 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #8492
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