![]() ![]() From its description, which includes a sky full of black stars, this Carcosa would appear to be some sort of parallel universe. ![]() The first four stories are all linked by references to “ The King in Yellow,” which is a play, also printed in book form, set in the mystical realm of Carcosa. If Chambers had maintained the macabre atmosphere and style of the first five stories throughout the book, The King in Yellow would have been a much more cohesive and successful collection of fiction. The book is largely remembered today for those stories in the former category. The collection is an oddly inconsistent mix, divided roughly in half between weird horror stories and more traditional romantic tales of American artists living in Europe. The King in Yellow, a book of short stories by American author Robert W. ![]() Only the macabre first half is worthwhile ![]()
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