"Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance
of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work
of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very
different quality. 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.
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