The King in Yellow.
The King in Yellow.
The King in Yellow.
The King in Yellow.
ByRobert W. Chambers.Author of “In the Quarter.”Neely’s Prismatic Library.Gilt Top, 50 Cents.
ByRobert W. Chambers.Author of “In the Quarter.”Neely’s Prismatic Library.Gilt Top, 50 Cents.
By
Robert W. Chambers.
Author of “In the Quarter.”
Neely’s Prismatic Library.
Gilt Top, 50 Cents.
This book has evidently created an astonishing amount of enthusiasm among the lovers of the weird and eccentric in literature. On all sides nothing but praise has been heard, coupling the gifted author’s name with that of Edgar Allan Poe, and predicting a glorious future for the man whose pen has the magical power to charm the reading public, ever eager to seize on that which borders upon thebizarre. The odd and attractive cover appeals to the curiosity of the reader, and once he has dipped into the contents he finds a feast spread before him that awakens a desire for further intercourse with the same fertile pen.
Edward Ellis:—“The author is a genius without a living equal, so far as I am aware, in his peculiar field. It is a masterpiece.... I have read many portions several times, captivated by the unapproachable tints of the painting. None but a genius of the highest order could do such work.”
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser:—“The short prose tale should be a synthesis; it was the art of Edgar Poe, it is the art of Mr. Chambers.... His is beyond question a glorious heritage.... I fancy the book will create a sensation; ... in any case it is the most notable contribution to literature which has come from an American publisher for many years; and fine as the accomplishment is, ‘The King in Yellow’ is large in promise. One has a right to expect a great deal from an author of this calibre.”
Times Herald:—“The most eccentric little volume of its (little) day ‘The King in Yellow’ is subtly fascinating, and compels attention for its style, and its wealth of strange, imaginative force.”
New York Times:—“Mr. Robert W. Chambers does not have a system to work up to; he has no fad, save a tendency to write about the marvelous and the impossible; painting pictures of romance that have a wild inspiration about them. Descriptive powers of no mean quality are perceptible in this volume of stories.”
The N. Y. World:—“Mr. Chambers has a great command of words; he is a good painter. His situations are most delicately touched, and some of his descriptions are exquisite. He writes like an artist. He uses colors rather than ideas.... The best drama in the volume means madness. The tenderest fancy is a sad mirage.... ‘The King in Yellow’ is a very interesting contribution to the present fund of materio-mysticism.... To read Mr. Chambers’ little book is to escape from the actual on poetical wings.”
Minneapolis Tribune:—“They have a mysterious eerie air about them that is apt to stimulate the reader’s curiosity.”
Philadelphia Times:—“Charming, delicate, skilful, vivid.”
Philadelphia Item:—“Expected to make a sensation, charming, full of color and delicately tinted.”
Cleveland Gazette:—“It is wondrous strong, dramatic, full of color, weird, uncanny, picturesque, and yet a gem of exquisite coloring, dreamy, symbolic, exciting.”