The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a 1895 collection of short horror stories loosely connected by their shared references to a fictional play of the same title. The significance of the color yellow is either from its use to indicate quarantine or from the feudal reservation of the color fauvel for those who were incapacitated by fear. Yellow also signified decadence and aestheticism at the turn of the 19th Century, as in the Yellow Book, a literary journal associated with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.

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• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers