Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow
- Original publication
- 1895
- Bilingual edition
- June 12, 2026
- Pages
- 434
- Difficulty
- ★★☆
- Translated from
- English
About this book
An artist discovers a strange play, The King in Yellow, whose reading seems to induce madness and obsession in those who delve into it. Through several interconnected stories, characters gradually descend into a disturbing world where reality and illusion blur. A haunting atmosphere emerges, marked by fear and the unknown. This book offers a unique exploration of psychological horror and the contagion of the mind. The author creates a disturbing and fascinating universe, a precursor to modern weird fiction.
The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout
Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.
The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.
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