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The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
5.0

I've already read the last story in the book (as part of a ghost story collection), and loved that story - it was one of the best in the collection. It remains my favourite out of the four stories collected here, but all are eerie and brilliant. I hadn't realised the King in yellow was a collection - I'd assumed it was one short novella. Though each of the stories is quite different, the atmosphere carries through the whole book. Noticeably, the stories are not nearly as dated as many from the same period which helps with the creeping sort of horror they employ, because it lends a sense of something that's universally to be dreaded.