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The author of The King in Yellow.
Robert W. Chambers wrote The King in Yellow (1895), a book of strange, linked stories about a play that drives its readers mad, and one of the great influences on modern horror.
Chambers was born in Brooklyn in 1865 and studied art in Paris, where he lived among students in the Latin Quarter. Back in New York he worked as an illustrator for magazines before turning to fiction.
The King in Yellow (1895) links its stories through an imaginary play of the same name, the Yellow Sign, and the lost city of Carcosa. It inspired H. P. Lovecraft and, much later, the TV series True Detective. After it Chambers gave up horror for popular romance novels and became very successful. He died in New York in 1933.
Have you found the Yellow Sign?
The Repairer of Reputations
The first King in Yellow story, set in a strange future New York.
1 hr 19 min · read by Eric Priessman 
The Yellow Sign
The most frightening of the stories.
54 min · read by Phil Thames 
The Mask
An artist who can turn living things to marble.
45 min · read by Marcus Locke 
Narrated by Hartley G. Lesser
A man slips into a church to escape the heat of the day, and finds he cannot settle there. The organist, a stranger, stares at him. The music has a strange, wrong sound,...
Narrated by Marcus Locke
Boris Yvain, a sculptor in Paris, has made a liquid that turns living things to marble. He shows it to his friend Alec using a lily and a goldfish. Boris loves Geneviève,...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
On the coast of Brittany, a chemist named Max Fortin shows the narrator a skull with a bullet hole in the forehead. Workmen have dug up thirty-eight of them in a gravel p...
Narrated by Eric Priessman
New York in the year 1920, as Robert W. Chambers imagined it in 1895: tidy, calm and quietly sinister. A young man recovering from a head injury becomes obsessed with a s...
Narrated by Phil Thames
A painter in his New York studio sees a watchman standing in the churchyard across Washington Square. Something about the man's pale, puffy face makes him think of a coff...
Born in Brooklyn, New York.
Studies art in Paris.
The King in Yellow.
Dies in New York City.
A book of linked stories about a forbidden play that drives readers mad. Lovecraft and many horror writers borrowed from it.
The Repairer of Reputations, then The Yellow Sign.
Yes. The first season of the series borrowed Carcosa and the Yellow King from Chambers.
Academy Voices has 5 Robert W. Chambers audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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