The King in Yellow

10 stories ISFDB fiction series King in Yellow (Chambers) comprises only 4 of the 10 stories. As of 2020-04-27 some ISFDB records of publications after the 1960s omit some of the other 6 stories as non-genre.

For known publications of the fiction series alone see 4-story collection The King in Yellow. Some publications listed below may contain only the four King in Yellow stories, or otherwise contain fewer than 10 of the originally collected stories.

"[RWC]'s first successful work was The King in Yellow (coll 1895; cut 1902; with different cuts vt The Mask, and Other Stories 1929). The eponymous King in Yellow is the title character of a printed verse play, a book which functions as a mise en abîme or Basilisk that drives its readers to despair, madness and even suicide (see Psychology)." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3 , entry by John Clute and Lee Weinstein

"Nothing RWC wrote thereafter came close to equalling The King in Yellow in either mystery or power." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), entry by Mike Ashley

The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive. Price in advertisement on copyright page, "Neely's Prismatic Library", which advertises 20 titles as "GILT TOP, 50 CENTS", including 2 by R.W. Chambers, The King in Yellow and In the Quarter.