5/10/2023 0 Comments The king in yellow storiesThe legacy of Chambers’ book continues to expand upon its conceptualization as a proto-postmodernist meta-fiction. The result is a book that contains ten self-contained short stories and a fictional play also titled “The King in Yellow” from which excerpts are introduced throughout the stories. The composition of this unusual work was undertaken by Chambers following a trip to Paris as an art student in which he immersed himself in the horrific imagery of Bohemian and Decade art movements. That volume is considered to hold such great and dreadful power that anyone who dares read it set down upon a path toward insanity. The connective tissue tying the stories together is the alleged existence of a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. Chambers published The King in Yellow in 1895 as a collection of supernatural tales that interrelated and connected to each other through an interesting conceit that prefigured the rise of postmodernism by a good half century or more. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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