King in Yellow
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.With its strange, imaginative blend of ho… Celý popis ↓
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King in Yellow
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W.
An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. 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. 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'.
Parametre
- Výrobca
- WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
- Autor
- Robert W. Chambers
- Počet strán
- 192
- Rok vydania
- 2010