Title: The King in Yellow
Description: An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi.  [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, to read which brings doom.  A discovery that changes living flesh to stone.  The mad adherents of a cult of evil powers from beyond. A lost traveler is suddenly 400 years in the past.
Great writing; powerful emotions. Chambers wrote mainly conventional stuff, but not here.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies, Fiction, fantasy, paranormal, American fiction, American Short stories, Cuentos estadounidenses, Fiction, general, American literature, Literature, American Paranormal fiction, American Horror tales
Places: United States; Bretagne, United states
Time periods: 1900, 1920