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Literature

In the Court of the Dragon

In the Court of the Dragon follows an exhausted reader of The King in Yellow who seeks peace in a Parisian church. A hostile organist appears to pursue him across the city and into his own courtyard. When the apparent pursuit ends, the narrator discovers that the distinction between physical safety and spiritual peril offers no dependable refuge.

6 min read · 1,136 words

Authors

Robert W. Chambers

Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) was an American artist and writer whose The King in Yellow became an important source for later weird fiction. His early training and work in visual art have a close counterpart in stories about painters, sculptors, models and the unstable relation between an image and a life. His wider career also included extensive romantic and historical fiction.

7 min read · 1,323 words

Literature

The Mask

The Mask is Chambers’s story of a sculptor’s discovery that can turn living things into marble and of a concealed love that breaks apart a circle of friends. Appearing second in The King in Yellow, it combines dangerous art, fevered visions and apparent death with an ending that differs sharply from the collection’s more unrelieved catastrophes.

6 min read · 1,054 words