Lovecraft cited this book as an influence, and it's the direct source of Hastur's name. A common thread is a fictional play also called The King in Yellow, the reading of which either drives people mad or leads them to a dark fate.ĭue to the publishing date, it's in the public domain in most countries and readable online. The stories are scattered all over the map between horror and romance, but all generally have ties to France as a setting, the later ones moving more and more into romance and increasingly starring artists. The King in Yellow is a rather surreal collection of short stories by Robert W. A collection of stories about artists in Paris, half of those are very romantic and the other half involve a mysterious play that induce madness on those who read it.
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