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All of the excerpts come from Act I. The stories describe Act I as quite ordinary, but reading Act II drives the reader mad with the "irresistible" revealed truths: "The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterward with more awful effect". Even seeing the first
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He mentioned the establishment of the Dynasty in Carcosa, the lakes which connected Hastur, Aldebaran and the mystery of the Hyades. He spoke of Cassilda and Camilla, and sounded the cloudy depths of Demhe, and the Lake of Hali. "The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever",
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Night fell and the hours dragged on, but still we murmured to each other of the King and the Pallid Mask, and midnight sounded from the misty spires in the fog-wrapped city. We spoke of Hastur and of Cassilda, while outside the fog rolled against the blank window-panes as the cloud waves roll and
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The first and fourth stories, "The Repairer of Reputations" and "The Yellow Sign", are set in an imagined future 1920s America, whereas the second and third stories, "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon", are set in Paris. These stories are haunted by the theme: "Have you found the Yellow
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he muttered, but I do not believe Vance heard him. Then by degrees he led Vance along the ramifications of the Imperial family, to Uoht and Thale, from Naotalba and Phantom of Truth, to Aldones, and then tossing aside his manuscript and notes, he began the wonderful story of the Last King.
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The macabre character gradually fades away during the remaining stories, and the last three are written in the romantic fiction style common to Chambers' later work. They are all linked to the preceding stories by their Parisian setting and their artistic protagonists.
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where Prince Prospero demands that the stranger dressed as the Red Death should remove his mask and robes, only to find nothing underneath. Given the recognition of that short story, this might be an inspiration or even a tribute from Chambers to Poe.
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stories. Lovecraft borrowed Chambers' method of only vaguely referring to supernatural events, entities, and places, thereby allowing his readers to imagine the horror for themselves. The play
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page of the second act is enough to draw the reader in: "If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it" ("The Repairer of Reputations").
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Chambers' story collection excerpts some sections from the play to introduce the book as a whole, or individual stories. For example, "Cassilda's Song" comes from Act 1, Scene 2 of the play:
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has at least two acts and at least three characters: Cassilda, Camilla and "the Stranger", who may or may not be the titular character.
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stories devoid of horror or supernatural elements. The horror stories are highly esteemed, and it has been described by critics such as
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Chambers usually gives only scattered hints of the contents of the full play, as in this extract from "The Repairer of Reputations":
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called it "an absolute masterpiece, probably the single greatest book of weird fantasy written in this country between the death of
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These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters who are often artists or
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throughout the series, and its symbolic use of yellow as a thematic signature that signifies insanity and decadence.
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can be observed in the show's dark philosophy, its recurring use of "Carcosa" and "The Yellow King" as
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in early 1927 and included passing references to various things and places from the book—such as the
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The book contains nine short stories and a sequence of poems; while the first stories belong to the
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through the first four stories, a forbidden play which induces madness in those who read it.
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has pointed out that the story "The Demoiselle d'Ys" was influenced by the stories of
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A mysterious and malevolent supernatural and gothic entity known as the King in Yellow
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A similar passage occurs in "The Yellow Sign", in which two protagonists have read
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The short story "The Mask" is introduced by an excerpt from Act 1, Scene 2d:
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Illustration of Tessie in "The Yellow Sign", from a 1902 edition of the book.
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Cassilda's Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers' King in Yellow Mythos
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progressively transitions towards a more light-hearted tone, ending with
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The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices:
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Brian Stableford, "The King in Yellow" in Frank N. Magill, ed.
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play (in Chambers' short story "The Mask") evokes the scene in
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Joshi, S. T.; Schultz, David E. (2001). "Chambers, Robert W".
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Rehearsals for Oblivion: Act 1 - Tales of The King in Yellow
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Indeed it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
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Index

The King in Yellow (album)
Hastur

Robert W. Chambers
Decadent literature
horror
supernatural
weird
romance
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
The Maker of Moons
The King in Yellow
Wikisource
short stories
Robert W. Chambers
Chatto & Windus
genres
supernatural horror
weird fiction
romantic
E. F. Bleiler
S. T. Joshi
T. E. D. Klein
supernatural
Lin Carter
Poe
Lovecraft
play within the stories
motif

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