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In una realtà alternativa, dove la libertà individuale è solo un pallido ricordo e il suicidio è istituzionalizzato, personaggi tormentati e artisti visionari si muovono tra ossessioni, amori impossibili e libri proibiti. Il misterioso «Re Giallo», un antico e sinistro volume, minaccia di distruggere ogni certezza in chi lo legge, spalancandogli le porte dell'ineffabile. Cosa siamo disposti a rischiare per salvaguardare la nostra umanità?
Sullo sfondo di una New York distopica e una Parigi fin de siècle, dieci racconti gotici per esplorare i recessi della mente, quando il sogno diventa incubo e la realtà sfugge a ogni ragione.
Il riferimento letterario di TRUE DETECTIVE, la serie TV di grande successo
«Uno dei più grandi racconti dell'orrore mai scritti.»
H.P. Lovecraft
- ISBN: 8867317180
- Casa Editrice: Vallardi
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 06-11-2014
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Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ 5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations". although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate terminally dispi Leggi tutto
As all those addicted to weird tales have known for years, The King in Yellow is one of the seminal books of modern horror fiction. It inspires, and continues to inspire. It prompted H.P. Lovecraft to create the Cthulhu mythos almost ninety years ago, and a mere five years ago it became a major refe Leggi tutto
" Esto es lo que me perturba, porque no puedo olvidar Carcosa, donde estrellas negras flotan en los cielos; donde las sombras de los pensamientos de los hombres se alargan al atardecer, cuando los soles gemelos se hunden en el lago Hali, y mi mente sufrirá para siempre el recuerdo de la Máscara Páli Leggi tutto
Maybe 3.5 A bit of a mixed bag. The first 5 short stories were really good but I struggled to finish the last few.
Having been a huge fan of weird fiction and cosmic horror for years, it was more than time for me to sit down with the infamous “King in Yellow”, by Robert W. Chambers. This book is considered quite seminal for the genre, overshadowing nearly everything else the author has written in his life, and I Leggi tutto
No... nope, does not work. I tried i really did and i can see why people like these tales but i seriously believe they're judging them more on potential than actuality. Look the writing isn't bad, Chambers has a decent ability to paint a scene and his characters are actually quite good, as are his i Leggi tutto
This edition of Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow collects four of the original ten stories, omitting those standalone tales that don’t have anything to do with the King in Yellow “storyline” (for want of a better word). So the four left - The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of Leggi tutto
While perhaps not as popular as Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce—-two of his literary contemporaries—-Robert W. Chambers is among the more influential 19th-century writers that helped to shape modern horror fiction. His book of short stories, “The King in Yellow”, published in 1895, is still consid Leggi tutto
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