The king in yellow

Description:

An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi. [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, to read which brings doom. A discovery that changes living flesh to stone. The mad adherents of a cult of evil powers from beyond. A lost traveler is suddenly 400 years in the past. Great writing; powerful emotions. Chambers wrote mainly conventional stuff, but not here.

subjects: Fiction,  Fiction, horror,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies,  Fiction, fantasy, paranormal,  American fiction,  American Short stories,  Cuentos estadounidenses,  Fiction, general,  American literature,  Literature,  American Paranormal fiction,  American Horror tales

Places: United States; Bretagne

Times: 1900