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nickdablin 's review for:
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A strange, almost unclassifiable set of short stories - a mix of eerie horror, romance and sumotuous description. Not an easy read despite being short, the drifting, surreal nature of the stories make the collection almost read like a dream journal that one has stumbled upon, not meant for public consumption. The titular King in Yellow is a brilliant connecting device, yet this is abandoned halfway through the stories, as if the author's ambiguous whims moved on from this framing device. An eerie and sometimes unsettling collection, but ultimately oddly inconsistent. Perhaps that very inconsistency adds to its mystique however.