The story reveals, over time, that Hildred has both read the play The King In Yellow and suffered a nasty fall – each of which are, it is suggested, partway responsible for his delusions of grandeur and his attempts to ensure his ascent to the throne. Wilde, seeks to be claimed as The Last King of The Imperial Dynasty of America, and that his cousin Louis Castaigne stands in his way. This story is set in a 1920s that never was (the story was written in the 1890s), and is a tale told from the point of view of Hildred Castaigne who, with the help of the 'Repairer of Reputations', Mr. Cassilda's Song in The King in Yellow, Act 1, Scene 2. Wordsworth Editions 2010 UK edition of The King In Yellow The stories often contain or reference the same characters, implying they have a shared setting though they may not all occur in the same time period. The ones in between vary in theme and content, but arguably touch on subjects related to the play. This served as the inspiration for some of the tales, particularly the final stories of the book, which have no obvious connection to its title and emphasise romance over horror. Those characters who read the play The King in Yellow go mad or meet horrible dooms.Īlthough Chambers was an American writer, most of the stories are set in and around France, particularly Paris, where he had spent many years as an artist – the central characters are usually decadents and artists. An eerie emblem or symbol called The Yellow Sign.A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity of the same name.A play in book-form entitled The King In Yellow.The first few stories in particular are loosely connected by three main devices: The book could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic, but it also touches on fantasy, mystery, war, romance, mythology, surrealism, and science-fiction. Chambers, whose first edition appeared in 1895. The King In Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.Full cover of The King in Yellow (1895, likely 2nd or 3rd edition) Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W.
The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty.
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