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Title: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers ISBN: 0-9718305-0-9 Publisher: Sattre Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: superbly bleak atmosphere and appropriately ambiguous horror
Comment: many fans of the work of robert w. chambers insist that "the king in yellow" is an actual book, the existence of which can only be taken on faith. while i am naturally skeptical about this, as i am about the "necronomicon", i find the soul crushing ambiance of cosmic doom and impending insanity far superior to many of the famed tales of lovecraft. "the repairer of reputations" is to my mind ranked with m.r. james "casting of the runes" and "the shadow over innsmouth". whether he was writing about a real book or not, chambers obviously had something weighing on his mind. creepy as hell.
Rating: 2
Summary: no king
Comment: well, chambers stories have a LOT of potential. he has quite an imagination. very original guy. and very different. he could have been truly weird. but he doesn't know when to stop. he can suddenly stretch the story too far in one direction, amazingly enogh: away from the horror. also he likes to include romance even when it doesn't fit. he has an anarchic style that destroys the stories.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pioneer Author of the Macabre
Comment: Most of the other reviews here rightly criticize
the syrupy romance of Chambers and the thin
character development in this book. They also
entirely miss the point. This book was published
in 1895, and between Poe and Ambrose Bierce the
literature of fantasy and the macabre had not
developed greatly. This book should simply be
enjoyed for what it is -- a flawed book with
some rather sinister and chilling stories.
A better purchase would be "The King In Yellow And
Other Stories," which collect this and other works.
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Title: Nameless Cults (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by Robert E. Howard ISBN: 1568821301 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend by Daniel Harms, John Wisdom, III Gonce ISBN: 1578632692 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Hastur Cycle: 13 Tales That Created and Define Dread Hastur, of the King in Yellow, Nighted Yuggoth, and Dire Carcosa by Robert M. Price, Chaosium, Campbell, Chambers ISBN: 1568820097 Publisher: Wizard's Attic Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series, 6035) by Arthur Machen, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 1568821727 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Best Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood ISBN: 0486229777 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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