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With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?

This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow ‘achieves notable heights of cosmic fear’.

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A következő kiadói sorozatban jelent meg: Roads Designer Classics Roads Publishing angol

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Pushkin Press, London, 2018
160 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781782273769
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Corundum Classics, United Kingdom, 2014
204 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781623750794
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Read Forward, 2014
296 oldal

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Várólistára tette 17

Kívánságlistára tette 5


Kiemelt értékelések

rapchee>!
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow

10 rövid történet, fele hátborzongató, fele gazdag-nemeses-romantikus (néhány átmenettel), de mind olvasmányos, és nagyjából szórakoztató volt, bár be kell előtte egy anti-viktoriánus tablettát venni előtte, érzékenyebbeknek kettőt.

thuki>!
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow

Először nem tudtam mit fogok olvasni, de jól beleillett a Poe-Bierce-Lovecraft vonalba.


Népszerű idézetek

voisin>!

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

voisin>!

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.

Életveszélyes_és_Tilos>!

“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”


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H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu
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Laird Barron: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Kathe Koja: Velocities
Clark Ashton Smith: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
H. P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Clark Ashton Smith: The Averoigne Chronicles
John Langan: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
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