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The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow

Original publication
1895
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
435
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction, Poetic
Translated from
English

Book summary

An artist discovers a strange play, The King in Yellow, whose reading seems to induce madness and obsession in those who delve into it. Through several interconnected stories, characters gradually descend into a disturbing world where reality and illusion blur. A haunting atmosphere emerges, marked by fear and the unknown. This book offers a unique exploration of psychological horror and the contagion of the mind. The author creates a disturbing and fascinating universe, a precursor to modern weird fiction.

The plot

A painter and a strange dream. Mr. Scott, a painter, sees a church watchman with a soft white face that disgusts him. Right after, his painting turns a sickly, yellowish color.

The world of the book

Artists between New York and Paris. The book gathers ten stories. The first four are linked by a play the author invented, The King in Yellow, and two of them take place in New York. The others are set mostly in Paris…

The author

A young American painter in Paris. Born in Brooklyn, in the United States, he first wanted to be a painter. At twenty-one, he went to Paris to study art and lived there for seven years among young artists. In 1889, one…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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