The King in Yellow
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781464213717
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

The King in Yellow

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A haunting collection of short stories from a classic horror writer, Robert W. Chambers. The newest addition to the Haunted Library Horror Classics series!

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.
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781464213717
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the authors

Leslie S. Klinger

LESLIE S. KLINGER is the two-time Edgar® winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He has also edited two anthologies of classic mysteries and, with Laurie R. King, five anthologies of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Klinger is the series editor of Library of Congress Crime Classics, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is a former Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Malibu, California.