The King in Yellow (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The King in Yellow Saturday, August 8 2009.

• "The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, really achieves notable heights of cosmic fear in spite of uneven interest and a somewhat trivial and affected cultivation of the Gallic studio atmosphere made popular by Du Maurier's Trilby. The most powerful of its tales, perhaps, is The Yellow Sign, in which is introduced a silent and terrible churchyard watchman with a face like a puffy grave-worm's." - from the Introduction by H.P. Lovecraft.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The King in Yellow Saturday, August 8 2009.

• Added a contributor: Robert W. Chambers: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The King in Yellow Friday, July 17 2009.

• TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration.