The King in Yellow (Annotated)

Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow is a haunting cycle of loosely connected tales unified by the imagined forbidden drama from which the volume takes its name. Blending decadent fin-de-siècle aesthetics with supernatural dread, the book moves from bohemian Paris and alternative-history America to intimate studies of obsession, art, and madness. Its style is elegant, ironic, and suggestive rat...