A review by _alyssa25
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

4.0

I only read the first four stories that make up the Weird Fiction aspect of the play The King in Yellow and the land of Carcosa (stories that heavily influenced Lovecraft and thematically featured in the fist season of True Detective), but I was surprised by how creepy and modern they were for an book published in 1895. I personally found Chambers a better writer than Lovecraft. The rest of the book is Romantic Fiction that I wasn't interested in, so I can't speak to those stories.