The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics 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. " The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.