" The Repairer of Reputations" – a story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title.Illustration of Tessie in "The Yellow Sign", from a 1902 edition of the book. They are all linked to the preceding stories by their Parisian setting and their artistic protagonists. 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. These stories are haunted by the theme: "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" 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 macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters who are often artists or decadents, inhabitants of the demi-monde. A mysterious and malevolent supernatural and gothic entity known as the King in Yellow.A play in book form entitled The King in Yellow.The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices: The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895 (316 pages). There are 10 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. Lin Carter called it "an absolute masterpiece, probably the single greatest book of weird fantasy written in this country between the death of Poe and the rise of Lovecraft". Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. The first half of the book features highly esteemed horror stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E.
The book is named for the fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert W.
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