Published in 1895, The King in Yellow is a short story collection by Robert W. Chambers, unified by references to a fictional cursed play that drives its readers to madness. The early stories blend fin-de-siècle dread with supernatural horror, and the collection became a landmark of American weird fiction.
Chambers’ work had a profound influence on later writers, most notably H. P. Lovecraft, and experienced a cultural revival in the twenty-first century. Download this free public-domain EPUB and read the strange, unsettling tales that defined a genre.