The King in Yellow Robert Williams Chambers 9781541285774 Books
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First published in 1895, The King in Yellow is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which (“The Repairer of Reputations”, “The Mask”, “In the Court of the Dragon”, and “The Yellow Sign”) mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.
The King in Yellow Robert Williams Chambers 9781541285774 Books
This review is of the Pushkin Press so-called Deluxe Edition. Sadly, this edition is hopelessly incomplete, and should in no way be described as "deluxe". It is missing the epigrammatic "Cassilda's Song" which appears at the beginning of the original collection, and is the densest source of allusions to (which are sparse enough as it is), and crucial to grasping in however fragmentary a manner, the Carcosa/King in Yellow "mythology" touched on in the first four stories and glancingly referenced elsewhere in Chambers' work. More forgivable, but still puzzling, is the absence of the "non-King in Yellow" stories which rounded out the first edition. These are supposedly irrelevant to what is assumed to be the reader's primary interest, namely the aforementioned "weird" elements, but the volume would still be slim enough (esp. considering the cover price) with these added that it's a little inexplicable that they were excluded. All-in-all, this edition was highly disappointing, and I am annoyed that I had to learn its inadequacies the hard way. I have since purchased the Fall River Press edition, which includes Cassilda's Song, all of the original tales, as well as prolegomena and annotations by S. T. Joshi, which puts the collection in broader literary and historical context.Product details
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The King in Yellow Robert Williams Chambers 9781541285774 Books Reviews
A weird book needs to be approached in a weird way. Accordingly, I read the book backwards, chapter wise, starting with the last story “Rue Barree” then proceeding back to “The Repairer of Reputations.”
It’s been suggested that the horrors of the first stories, clear and obvious, gradual ripple out into barely imperceptible connections in the later tales. I wanted to see if I could pick up on these diminishing currents by swimming back into the central vortex of horrors rather than away from them. I can’t say that I encountered any unconcealed terrors in these further out tales, although hints of dark atmosphere seem to exist, shoehorned into otherwise bright sunlit scenes of gardens, admitting disquiet notes into peaceful composition.
More certain, what I did encounter was the use of the word “yellow”, usually in a description of a lamp (The Street of the First Shell), but also, more than once, as a cat’s eye color (several times in The Street of the Four Winds), and quite notably, in the final story, “Rue Barree,“ where the protagonist has a horrid nightmare of drowning in a “river of yellow ochre.” No one seems to reference this yellow nightmare mentioned so close to the book‘s ending. Furthermore, if any one of these stories had mentioned the yellow sign or the king, even just once, that story would fall right in place with the rest.
Approach it like a Beatle album, with some stories having clear thematic connection, while others, though less adherent to the theme, still foster uneasy impressions and unresolved episodes, with perhaps two or three fillers thrown in for literary completeness.
Notes
Rue Barree is the name of a street, but also the name of an elusive lady who lives on that street, for no one knows her real name. Cryptic and puzzling ending, darkness and marble walls, almost funereal.
The Court of the Dragon is the name of the place where the main character lives. A very good story… poe-ish elements abound, especially Poe‘s “The Man in the Crowd.’’
The Demoiselle D’ys Astounding story with a great ending.
The Street of the Four Winds a thin and hungry cat befriends a struggling artist. Very nice collar on the cat, but it’s very loose about its neck. Better find this poor cats true owner…then again.
The Street of Our Lady of the Field Dr. Byram, an old family friend, helps Hastings(Hastur?) find lodging on the Street of Our Lady of the Field. Hastings is introduced to Valentine at the garden. Weird atmosphere, a soldier playing a drum, an elusive Valentine, she wants to leave. A train ride like no other, or was it a train ride? I’ll assume it was a train ride.
this copy (The blue covered one) is incomplete! it left out "The Prophets' Paradise" which ties in details for one of the other stories. It's a shame, the book overall is good but disappointed they left out one of the stories.
This book is good for anyone who likes some good old school literature! If your here because your a fan of Lovecraft one thing to be aware of is this. Chambers was an artist who clearly had a lot of experience in that field. An artist lifestyle is well reflected through the characters in this book. Keep in mind that Chambers includes much more romance and tragic romance than Lovecraft ever did. Furthermore at one point the book drops any notion of cosmic horror completely, and instead focuses on romance.
Just to make it clear, this review is not about the content of the book. I just opened it today and have not read the stories yet.
This version has a terrible layout, with no clear divisions between the stories and a table of contents that doesn't tell you where anything is, and THE ENTIRE THING IS PRINTED IN COMIC SANS. WHY. THIS WAS A DECISION THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY MADE.
While I am appalled by the choice of font, the format of the layout is really the worst part of this for me. New stories do not start on new pages; they simply start on the next line after the last story ended, and the titles are the same size font as the rest of the text. The titles aren't even bolded or underlined. The only thing that lets you know that they're titles is the fact that they're in all caps, which is easy to miss if you're flipping through the book.
That being said, the quality of the paper is nice enough, so if you want something that probably won't fall apart or rip if you turn the page too quickly, you think Comic Sans is a "fun" font that adds spice to reading, and not knowing where stories start or end sounds exciting, perhaps this is the version of the book for you.
No copyright page. No information on the cover art. Only copyright is a printing date (April 3, 2018, two whole days before I received the book in the mail.)
I’ve got nothing against Print-On-Demand...it’s frankly amazing that this is even a thing. But I have a huge problem with nowhere in the book does it state that it was first published in 1895, which is hugely relevant to its fame. I also wonder if they simply pirated and stole the cover art, as no copyright or illustrator credit is provided for that.
Do not support this publisher. There are other sources who know how to honor the artists and authors whose work they are so cheaply flogging.
This review is of the Pushkin Press so-called Deluxe Edition. Sadly, this edition is hopelessly incomplete, and should in no way be described as "deluxe". It is missing the epigrammatic "Cassilda's Song" which appears at the beginning of the original collection, and is the densest source of allusions to (which are sparse enough as it is), and crucial to grasping in however fragmentary a manner, the Carcosa/King in Yellow "mythology" touched on in the first four stories and glancingly referenced elsewhere in Chambers' work. More forgivable, but still puzzling, is the absence of the "non-King in Yellow" stories which rounded out the first edition. These are supposedly irrelevant to what is assumed to be the reader's primary interest, namely the aforementioned "weird" elements, but the volume would still be slim enough (esp. considering the cover price) with these added that it's a little inexplicable that they were excluded. All-in-all, this edition was highly disappointing, and I am annoyed that I had to learn its inadequacies the hard way. I have since purchased the Fall River Press edition, which includes Cassilda's Song, all of the original tales, as well as prolegomena and annotations by S. T. Joshi, which puts the collection in broader literary and historical context.
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