The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition

A stunning new paperback edition of the supernatural Weird Fiction horror classic that inspired H. P. Lovecraft and the HBO series True Detective – with colored sprayed edges and elegant Art Deco design.

Included are 4 unforgettably unsettling tales about a stage play that drives its audience mad. The stories explore the supernatural, spirituality, and the potentially corrosive influence of belief in an afterlife.

"I cannot forget Carcosa, where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts grow longer in the afternoon ... I pray God to curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, monstrous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth – a world that now trembles before the King in Yellow."

Eerie, macabre, and disquieting: the four stories are linked by the fictional stage play The King in Yellow, whose second act reveals truths as terrible as they are beautiful – and drives all who read them to despair. Like a contagious plague, the book spreads across cities and continents. Its corrupting pages defy any known norm; recognized as a great work of art, yet barely bearable to human nature.

Since their first publication in 1895, these tales have influenced generations of writers – from the master of cosmic dread H. P. Lovecraft to the creators of True Detective. A rediscovered icon of Weird Fiction and supernatural horror.