The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The book features highly esteemed weird stories and supernatural tales. Table of Contents: «The Repairer of Reputations» – A weird story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title. «The Mask» – A dream story of art, love, and uncanny science. «In the Court of the Dragon» – A man is pursued by a sinister church organist who is after his soul. «The Yellow Sign» – An artist is troubled by a sinister churchyard watchman who resembles a coffin worm. «The Demoiselle d'Ys» – A ghost story. «The Prophets' Paradise» – A sequence of eerie prose poems that develop the style and theme of a quote from the fictional play The King in Yellow which introduces «The Mask». «The Street of the Four Winds» – An atmospheric tale of an artist in Paris who is drawn to a neighbor's room by a cat; the story ends with a macabre touch. «The Street of the First Shell» – A war story set in the Paris Siege of 1870. «The Street of Our Lady of the Fields» – Romantic American bohemians in Paris. «Rue Barrée» – Romantic American bohemians in Paris, with a discordant ending that playfully reflects some of the tone of the first story.