Yellow Sign, An Excerpt from the King in Yellow: Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
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Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.
The fourth and most darkly romantic offering from the 19th century horror classic, The King in Yellow.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was a Brooklyn-born artist and writer best known for producing supernatural, horror and weird tales. He published his first novel, In the Quarter in 1894 but didn’t receive major recognition until 1895 with a collection of short stories called The King in Yellow. Despite entries in other genres, such as romance and historical fiction, Chambers’ most acclaimed works were Gothic in nature. His eerie tales would go on to inspire a generation of writers including H.P. Lovecraft.
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Yellow Sign, An Excerpt from the King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
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Introduction to the Series and to the Fourth Installment: The Yellow Sign
I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.
THE KING IN YELLOW
Welcome to the Weiser Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. I am your curator, Lon Milo DuQuette and I hope you will enjoy the strange and curious objects d'art I've collected for your pleasure and edification. Furthermore, I hope that you will wish to come back and visit the shoppe regularly. If your interests run to the old, the unusual, the forbidden or forgotten, then I believe you have come to the right place. Sit down. Have a cup of tea. Allow me to draw your attention to this dusty book of short stories first published in 1895.
Perhaps you have heard of The King in Yellow, first published in 1895? No? Neither had I until a few years ago when a filmmaker contacted me and informed me he was making a film out of it and asked if I would be interested in appearing in a cameo in his production. Before I gave him my answer (the project was later abandoned), I did a bit of digging and discovered a most remarkable treasure—a terrifying work of American horror that predates by a quarter century the first short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Indeed, The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, is arguably the archetypal inspiration for what would become an entire genre of horror fiction for which the immortal Lovecraft is ultimately credited.
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) is not exactly a household name, but that has not always been the case. Late in his career his romantic novels and historical fictions were wildly popular, his books best sellers, his magazine installments eagerly awaited. For a time he was considered the most successful American literary figure of the day. Yet his later and lighter offerings, while bringing him fame and modest fortune, are forgettable bonbons when compared to the strong meat and innovative brilliance of his works of horror. The most notable of all is The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories whose plots are loosely connected to an infamous imaginary book and play of the same title banned universally because of their ominous tendency to drive mad those who read or come in contact with them. Indeed, the terror begins immediately with the reader unsure whether or not madness and suicide will be the price he or she