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The King in Yellow

I have never read this collection of stories and am interested in getting a copy. On Amazon there seem to be multiple versions for different prices a confusing array of poor reviews for the formatting of some of them. Could someone suggest which publisher or page count I should look for to get a complete one, I would appreciate it.

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Ted Vician

Nov 25, 2020

[Posted this in Patreon forum earlier]

I did a search for this work and found it on Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm

G.L. McDorman

Feb 28, 2020

This is a great question. I have a copy that I bought while traveling that has terrible, terrible errors. In fact, when we did The Repairer of Reputations I discovered that Brandon thought there were more section breaks than I did ... and he was right. So this time when we went to do The Mask, I picked up the book called The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (ISBN 1-56882-170-0). This is published by Chaosium, an RPG publisher. It's edited by S.T. Joshi and is quite a nice volume. Except that it doesn't have all the stories in The King in Yellow because Joshi or Chaosium deemed then "not weird fiction," which is disappointing.

All of this is to say only that I had the same question a few months ago and couldn't come up with a good answer. But we will probably continue to pull stories from the Chaosium book I got.

Daniel Falch

Mar 07, 2020

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G.L. McDorman

Mar 08, 2020

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@Daniel Falch Haha, wow, I hadn't thought of that. We really should be hosting more masked balls, at any rate.

Ted Vician

Dec 28, 2020

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@Karanthir This makes sense. The Franco-Prussian War is 1870-1871. The Prussians did shell Paris starting in late 1870 and eventually march in. The shelling is described in one of the stories later in The King In Yellow. The first stories in the collection like The Repairer Of Reputations seem to be set in the 1920s. The book was written in 1895 (?), so some of it is historical fiction, some contemporary, and some futuristic.

Charles

Feb 28, 2020

This is the one I have.

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

ISBN: 9781840226447

I bought it from The Book Depository and paid $5.00 for it

The cover is yellow (a plus), and it contains all the stories from the original 1895 collection. It's a relatively small book coming in at 179 pages. The paper quality is nothing special, and other than a very brief introduction it doesn't have any extras.

Does the King in Yellow exist in a more definitive edition? Is there a version filled with copious foot-notes or end-notes? Does it exist in some more 'deluxe' format? I may want to upgrade my copy at some point in the future. All suggestions are welcome.

Daniel Falch

Feb 29, 2020

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The review I read about the ”deluxe“ edition made it sound pretty not deluxe or even readable so buyer beware especially in this case.

Daniel Falch

Feb 29, 2020

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I purchased this version on Amazon also for $5.00. Thanks for the info it was very helpful.

G.L. McDorman

Feb 29, 2020

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@Daniel Falch That was my experience as well when I was trying to make this same decision a few months ago. In general, I find Amazon really annoying whenever multiple editions are involved. I've just been trying to track down copies of The Gunslinger from before 2003 (when King retconned some of it) for later this year, and that was a challenge (but I won, in the end!).