Chicago/New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895.
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Hardcover. First edition, first issue in green cloth stamped in brown with no inserted frontispiece and p.318 blank. Contemporary owner's name front fly, moderately soiled, a nice very good copy with light rubbing. A collection of stories, four of which revolve around the nonexistent play "The King in Yellow" set in the land of Carcossa, which when viewed or read drives the viewer into madness. The central premise, of a play that makes you crazy, found its way into various later horror fiction, including the iconography of H.P. Lovecraft, and most recently, formed the basis of the plotline in the HBO series *True Detective*. "One of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fiction." - Bleiler.
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