The King In Yellow. (The Repairer of Reputations)
The King in Yellow: The King in Yellow (1895) is a collection of ten short stories by Robert William Chambers, in which the first four stories revolve around a cursed play named "The King in Yellow", that is said to make the reader insane. The play is never revealed to us but some fragments of it are present in the book. From these fragments we have come to know about some characters - Cassilda, Camilla, and an unknown man that may be the King in Yellow himself. The reader has to assemble the meaning from fragments, unreliable narrators, hallucinations, and dreams. This ambiguity is intentional: the horror is built from what is NOT said. " The first and fourth stories, "The Repairer of Reputations" and "The Yellow Sign", are set in an imagined future 1920s America, whereas the second and third stories, "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon", are set in Paris ." The first story, The Repairer of Reputations, starts wi...