'With its strange; imaginative blend of horror; science fiction; romance and lyrical prose; Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright; madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft; creator of the famed Cthulu mythos; whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow achieves notable heights of cosmic fear.'