The King in Yellow

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The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert W. Chambers. The first half of the book features highly esteemed horror stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ( The Repairer of Reputations , The Mask , In the Court of the Dragon , and The Yellow Sign ) mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.