A milestone of American supernatural fiction, The King in Yellow created a sensation upon its 1895 publication. Since then, it has markedly influenced writers in the genre, most famously, H. P. Lovecraft. Author Robert W. Chambers has been hailed as a writer of remarkable imaginative powers and the historic link between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. This edition features the original 10 gripping stories. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.

The Mountain View Hotel and Resort was a six-storey hotel nestled in the Adirondack Mountains in central Pennsylvania, which had its heyday in the 1930's and 1940's with guests that included famous personalities, but also had some shady characters.Then, in 2025, the Smith family gets lost while trying to travel to New York for the matriarch, Kristen's niece's christening.They take refuge in The Mountain View, where they discover that both the hotel staff and its guests are more than what they seem and eventually the Smith family races against time to escape with their very l