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There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dive into an exceptional romantic comedy where destiny and science intersect in unpredictable ways. William Augustus Destyn is a ruined young gentleman who discovers how to use psychic currents to unite soulmates through a wireless invention. The plot...

“Have you seen the Yellow Sign?” mumbles a cadaverous hearse driver with a soft, squishy head. He’s been skulking about Scott’s painting studio, where he and Tessie have been developing a tangled relationship between artist and model. But as this ever-present watchman resembling a coffin worm begins to distract Scott, his portrait of Tessie takes on a deathlike pallor. How can they forever rid themselves of this hearse stalker? And what precisely does he mean by a “Yellow Sign”?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. First published in 1895, *The King in Yellow* is a landmark collection of ten interconnected weird fiction stories by Robert W. Chambers. Centered on a forbidden play that drives all who read it to madness, the book introduced iconic horror imagery —...

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Horror, SciFi & Fantasy of Fall Sid Feelings, a successful children’s entertainer, is trapped in a modern nightmare. She’s canceled when a man with whom she shares a name commits a heinous crime. The trouble is only beginning when she hires a mysterious specialist to...

During World War I, an American secret service agent, Evelyn Erith, opens and deciphers a coded letter. It says the Germans believe that Kay MacKay, an American concentration camp escapee, knows The Great Secret. And that MacKay must be eliminated. Erith finds McKay, saves him from German agents and convinces him to join U.S. Intelligence. Together they venture undercover into the Swiss Alps to discover and expose The Great Secret. The future of Europe depends on it!

Contents: Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Gold Bug - The Black Cat - The Pit and the Pendulum - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Cask of Amontillado - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Hop-Frog - The RavenBram Stoker - DraculaMary Shelley - FrankensteinJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu - CarmillaRobert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeH.P. Lovecraft - The Alchemist - At the Mountains of Madness - Azathoth - The Beast in the Cave.

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories - mysterious, macabre, and endearing by turns. The work has been linked to H. P. Lovecraft, with the titular entity forming a part of the extended Cthulhu mythos. The first three stories are darkly suspenseful and linked by the mysterious Yellow Sign and the malevolent King in Yellow. These will please Lovecraft fans most of all, and the ghost stories will not disappoint. Also included in this collection are a war story and a strange romance, both of which intrigue and entertain.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Youth, art, and love among the rooftops of the Latin Quarter. Far from the cosmic dread of The King in Yellow, Chambers turns his eye to the everyday romance of Paris — American art students chasing beauty, ambition, and each other through the cafés...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the sunlit ateliers and cafés of the Latin Quarter, young American art student Selby is warned about her on his very first day: the beautiful, unapproachable music student the whole quarter calls "Rue Barrée" — named for the barred street where...

First published in 1895, The King in Yellow is one of the most influential works of supernatural fiction ever written. In this haunting collection of interconnected stories, an enigmatic play known only as The King in Yellow leaves devastation in its wake, driving those who read it towards obsession, despair and terrifying revelations. Blending psychological horror, Gothic mystery and eerie cosmic imagination, Robert W. Chambers creates an atmosphere of mounting unease where reality begins to unravel and the boundaries between dream and nightmare dissolve.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris is starving. Through the bitter winter of 1870, as Prussian guns ring the besieged city and bohemian artists share what little they have, the American painter Jack Trent clings to one warmth the cold cannot reach — his young wife Sylvia. Then a...

Behind these doors lie romances of vanished courts, haunted studios, distant wars, and the pale, troubling light of stranger worlds. The Robert W. Chambers Library presents the works of Robert W. Chambers read in full: tales of beauty, peril, desire, and that subtle shadow which falls across even the brightest afternoon. Enter quietly; some books are best approached as one approaches a dream, or a forbidden play.

church organ plays. A shadow watches. Escape becomes impossible. In In the Court of the Dragon, Robert W. Chambers delivers one of the most haunting and psychologically unsettling stories from his legendary collection The King in Yellow. Set in Paris and steeped in dreamlike terror, the tale...

Immerse yourself in a realm where the uncanny intertwines with the ethereal, as suggested by the evocative title "Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories." This podcast presents an eclectic collection of stories that delve into the strange and the mysterious, exploring themes of love, war, and the inexplicable forces of nature. With each episode, listeners are invited to traverse through a variety of narratives that challenge perceptions and ignite the imagination, all while highlighting the artistry of the weird tale. From hauntingly beautiful tales to whimsical explorations, this series is a...

Delve into the eerie and unsettling realms inspired by the haunting themes of "The King in Yellow," a collection that explores the thin boundary between reality and madness. This podcast invites listeners to traverse a landscape of psychological horror, existential dread, and the consequences of forbidden knowledge. With each new episode, you will encounter a complete audiobook that echoes the themes of descent into insanity and the allure of the unknown, drawing on the rich tradition of weird fiction. Each story serves as a unique exploration of characters grappling with the inexplicable, ...

What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian glacier? From the collection In Search of the Unknown comes a chilling tale of the things nature can do when nobody’s watching.

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. His best-known work is ‘The King in Yellow’ (1895), a highly vivid collection of Art Nouveau short stories. These stories are woven together by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title, which drives those who read it insane. ‘The Repairer of Reputations’ from ‘The King in Yellow’ is a mind-bending and disruptive story that adds just enough reality that the unreal elements seem totally at home in the descent to chaos.

Carcosa is a fictional land that first appeared in Bierce’s 1886 story “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (included in this collection), and later is appeared Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow. It has since been used by many other fantasy and horror writers and poets. This collection explores Carcosa and other fictional cities found in nineteenth-century poetry and short stories. The works of these classic and innovative writers are given new life, and a new generation of listeners will have the chance to voyage to Carcosa … and beyond.

O título da coletânea faz alusão a um livro dentro do audiolivro—mais precisamente, a uma peça teatral fictícia—e a seu personagem central, uma figura sobrenatural cuja existência extrapola a narração. A peça O Rei de Amarelo é mencionada em quatro dos contos, mas pouco se conhece de seu conteúdo. É certo apenas que o texto, em dois atos, leva o ouvinte à loucura, condenando sua alma à perdição. Um risco ao qual alguns aceitam se submeter, dado o caráter único da obra, um misto irresistível de beleza e decadência.