Robert W. Chambers 4 hr 51 min read

Cassilda's Song drifts up from a forbidden play, read its second act, and madness and doom follow, in tales haunted by the tattered King and lost Carcosa.

Robert W. Chambers's 1895 collection is a landmark of weird fiction, its linked opening stories among the most influential horror ever written. Eerie, decadent, unforgettable. Read it for the source of a legend, the accursed play 'The King in Yellow,' the Yellow Sign, and Carcosa, whose shadow falls across Lovecraft, True Detective, and a century of the weird.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 51 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).