The King in Yellow and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction & Ghost Stories of Robert W. Chambers, Annotated & Illustrated

Reading it made men go completely insane. One man demanded that he be made emperor of America, committed a vicious murder, and died in an asylum for the criminally insane. One went to his church in search of absolution but found a temple built to madness in its place. One woman teasingly read it against the wishes of her lover and died hours later; he was beaten by a man who had been dead for months and died before he could receive last rites. "The King in Yellow" - a play invented by Rober...