The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) [Kindle Edition] Author: Robert W. Chambers | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CWR4YKQ | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Free download The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories Epub Free from with Mediafire Link Download Link A treasured source for Lovecraft, Howard, and others, this collection endures as a work of remarkable power. Includes all the stories from The King in Yellow — "Yellow Sign," "Repairer of Reputations," "Demoiselle d'Ys," and others — plus stories from other sources, including three early sci-fi fantasies from In Search of the Unknown. 12 total. Books with free ebook downloads available The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories Epub Free
- File Size: 474 KB
- Print Length: 306 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0486437507
- Publisher: Dover Publications (February 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CWR4YKQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,725 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
HP Lovecraft was heavily inspired by Chambers' wierd tales from _The King in Yellow_. (He stole the name and vague concept of Hastur from it.) The frustrating thing about RW Chambers is that he COULD write very well, but for some reason he usually didn't. At his best he could weave an atmosphere of terrifying hallucinatory brilliance. At his worst he was hokey, sentimental, sappy, and tiresome. Half of his original _The King in Yellow_ consists of dopey romance stories that will infuriate the wierd fiction fan. Not so here. This Dover collection has only the best tales from _The King in Yellow_, as well as a number of other chilling morsels picked from Chambers' large body of later (mostly forgettable) work.
You should get hold of this collection just for "The Repairer of Reputations," which ranks as a superior masterpiece of surreal paranoid delirium. It's one of the top 5 wierd stories of all time, and actually BETTER than anything by Lovecraft.
By J. W. Kennedy
VINE VOICE
Any collection of Robert W Chambers's "King in Yellow" stories is a rare and welcome gift, and the best of those stories--"The Yellow Sign," "The Repairer of Reputations," and "In the Court of the Dragon"--are included in this volume. Curiously, however, others are omitted in favor of tales that, though quite good, simply don't seem to be part of the KIY cycle. The missing stories, in this reviewer's opinion, are as follows: "The Prophet's Paradise," "The Street of the Four Winds," "The Street of the First Shell," "The Street of Our Lady of the Fields," and "Rue Barree." Had the current volume included these tales, I would have given it the highest possible marks. Still, it is an excellent collection that I highly recommend to anyone interested in the work of the inestimable and terribly underrated Robert W. Chambers.
By Larry Dugan
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