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Is The King in Yellow actually good or is it just a meme?
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Is The King in Yellow actually good or is it just a meme?
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>>8244451
The Yellow Sign (one of the short stories in TKIY) is possibly the greatest short horror story ever written. Repairer of Reputations is pretty good as well. The rest is kind of meh. Altogether it is a very strange read.

Chambers is more down to earth than Lovecraft, so he tends to be more approachable.
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>>8244451
it's a meme
the usage-history of the meme in lit (and of course TV most recently) is much more interesting than the story
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It was ok. Chambers writes well, but the stories were no all that entertaining, at least the conclusion in many of them felt unclimactic.
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>>8244484
>>8244505
>>8244541
lmao here's the whole gambit of possible opinions on The King in Yellow in the first three replies
>it's the best
>it's a meme
>it's okay
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>>8244558
*gamut
>tfw retard
>tfw 4chan won't let me correct myself immediately
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