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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;A treasured source for Lovecraft, Howard, and others, this collection endures as a work of remarkable power. Includes all the stories from &lt;i&gt;The King in Yellow &amp;#8212; &lt;/i&gt;&quot;Yellow Sign,&quot; &quot;Repairer of Reputations,&quot; &quot;Demoiselle d'Ys,&quot; and others &amp;#8212; plus stories from other sources, including three early sci-fi fantasies from &lt;i&gt;In Search of the Unknown&lt;/i&gt;. 12 total.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not too familiar with this sub-genre of the weird, the romantic, or Victorian Ghost story. As a matter of fact, these two stories from The King in Yellow, The Demoisells d'Ys and The Mask may be my first introduction into this world.<br/><br/>I am having trouble connecting the first of these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34271607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first four stories are macabre in tone, centering on characters that are often artists or decadents, and involve a fictional two-act play of the same title as the book, a play that is as accursed to those who possess it as the Necronomicon would later be. The first story &quot;The Repairer of Re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43828753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Read via <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a>, not this edition.)<br/><br/>Chambers, along with Lovecraft, is one of the grandpappies of the contemporary horror genre, and these are his masterwork: a series of connected short stories and novellas about a mysterious play (also called <em>The King In Yellow</em>) that drives ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11948853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her little, hard eyes grew harder, and she clutched her umbrella until the steel ribs crackled.<br/><br/>&quot;Young man,&quot; she said, insolently; &quot;if I could have gotten rid of you I should have done so the day I was appointed president. But Professor Farrago refused to resign unless your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41798751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>The King In Yellow</u> is a collection of loosely connected stories which all involve, in one way or another, a forbidden book of the same title which brings inexorable and horrific ruin upon anyone unfortunate enough to read it. The world of these stories is nightmarish, surreal and oblique -- I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8722488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The King in Yellow comes before Carcosa, the Plateau of Leng and Soylent Green. The Yellow Sign is familiar to fans of Blue Oyster Cult.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm kind of offended that nobody told me about this before. This is probably the origin of what we think of as &quot;Horror&quot; in the 20th/21st century. I hear that this was a direct influence on H.P. Lovecraft, and it shows - it's a really interesting collection of interlinked stories that revol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1252447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here comes my King<br/>All dressed in Yellow<br/>And my old King<br/>he's one bad Fellow<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written 100 years ago, this book is creepier and more haunting than most horror fiction of today. This is ironic, because some claim all horror fiction today can trace its lineage to this book. I don't read much in the horror genre, but this is what I like when I do: mind-twisting, provocative, exot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10125974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exceptional collection of tales of dread and horror.<br/><br/>The tales address the malign influence of a play called The King in Yellow, which warps and distorts the lives of all who peruse it.<br/><br/>An obvious influence on the better known mythos of Lovecraft, and an excellent read for anyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25136843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first four stories that cover The King in Yellow are very interesting.  After that, he quickly departs from the theme and genre into fantasy and lost my interest.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you love surreal horror stories, you'll probably love these. ]]></body>
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