The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a book by American author Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. It is a collection of ten short horror and supernatural stories, the first four of which are loosely connected by three things: a play called 'The King in Yellow' which induces despair or madness in those who read it, a malevolent supernatural entity known as the King in Yellow, and a mysterious symbol called the Yellow Sign.

The ten stories are: The Repairer Of Reputations (a story of egotism and paranoia); The Mask (a dream story about art, love and science); In The Court Of The Dragon (a story about a creepy organist who follows a man around in order to gain his soul); The Yellow Sign (a story about a sinister churchyard watchman); The Demoiselle D'ys (a love story based around time travel); The Prophets' Paradise (a tale about a sequence of eerie poems that develop the style of a quote from the play The King in Yellow); The Street Of The Four Winds (an artist in Paris is drawn to a neighbor's room by a cat); The Street Of The First Shell (a war story); The Street Of Our Lady Of The Fields (a story about American bohemians in Paris); and, Rue Barrée (another story about American bohemians in Paris).