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The King in Yellow

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The King in Yellow -- recently featured in HBO's hit series True Detective -- is a classic collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. As an added bonus, it includes "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," by Ambrose Bierce, another related story. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: "The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories...whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmis fear..."

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The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers

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2014
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Language
English
Released
2014
Pages
208
ISBN10
1479408905
ISBN13
9781479408900
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First published
1895
Original title
The King in Yellow
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The King in Yellow -- recently featured in HBO's hit series True Detective -- is a classic collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. As an added bonus, it includes "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," by Ambrose Bierce, another related story. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: "The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories...whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmis fear..."