num_pages: 274
description: The King in Yellow - recently featured in HBO's hit series True Detective - is a classic collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft. As an added bonus, it includes "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," by Ambrose Bierce, another related story. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: "The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories...whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmis fear..."
language: English
title: The King in Yellow
titlecomplete: The King in Yellow
characters: Foxhall Clifford, Valentine Tissot, Mr Bladen, Gaston, Hartman, Hastings, Glemarec Renè, Susie Byng, Selby, Hastur, Severn, Bowles, Piriou Louis, Jeanne D'Ys, Richard Osborne Elliot, Raoul, Philip, Madame Tarotte, Jack Trent, George West, Braith, Sylvia
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Mystery, Gothic, Short Stories, 19th Century, Lovecraftian, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 17382
series: The King in Yellow
publisher: Ace Books