The King in Yellow

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, Francisco Goya and Arnold Böcklin. A play in two acts circulates through Europe; those who finish reading it go mad. Chambers gathered his linked tales around that idea in 1895, invented the Yellow Sign, borrowed lost Carcosa from Ambrose Bierce, and then — having built the vocabulary that Lovecraft and half of modern horror would ...