""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.
- ISBN10 1909399507
- ISBN13 9781909399501
- Publish Date 5 March 2015 (first published 1 January 1895)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Roads Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English