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The King in Yellow: Annotated & Illustrated Edition - The Weird Classic Behind True Detective and the Cthulhu Mythos
Paperback
Series: Carrier Press Annotated Classics
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Carrier Press
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Have you seen the Yellow Sign?
There is a play that no one can read twice. Its first act is harmless. Everyone who reads into the second act is ruined - driven mad, damned, or changed forever. It is called The King in Yellow, and the genius of Robert W. Chambers' 1895 masterpiece is that he never lets you read it. You only meet the wreckage it leaves behind.
First published in 1895, The King in Yellow is one of the most influential works of weird fiction ever written. Its cursed play, its lost city of Carcosa, and its dread symbol the Yellow Sign haunted H. P. Lovecraft, seeded the Cthulhu Mythos, and returned to shock a new generation through HBO's True Detective. This is the source - complete, unabridged, and newly brought to life.
This Annotated & Illustrated Edition includes:
- All ten original stories, complete and unabridged
- An original introduction tracing Chambers' strange genius and the Bierce → Chambers → Lovecraft → True Detective lineage
- A headnote before every story to guide first-time readers
- A Glossary of the Yellow Mythos - Carcosa, Hastur, Hali, the Pallid Mask, the Yellow Sign, and more
- Twelve original illustrations in the decadent fin-de-siècle style of the Yellow Nineties
From the disorienting future-New York of The Repairer of Reputations to the pure terror of The Yellow Sign, this is weird fiction's founding nightmare, presented as it deserves.
The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow are waiting.
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