froudy 's review for:

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

3.5

medium-paced

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The dystopian 1920s America that was being painted, with eldritch horror underneath, was truly captivating. But it all changed to high society Paris with weird women being weird and I struggled immensely to finish those final pages. If there is more like the King in Yellow somewhere amongst Chambers’ work I will read it in an instant, but I will be dodging anything that resembles those last stories for the rest of my life.