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Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an American writer and artist who continued the traditions of the bizarre and gothic literature established by Edgar Poe and Ambrose Bierce. Despite the fact that Robert Chambers gained fame as a successful and talented writer during his lifetime, with about ninety published books, his most famous book is still his collection of short stories The King in Yellow. These works have greatly influenced the entire world literature in the genres of mysticism and horror, gaining an army of admirers of the amazing and mysterious world of the Yellow Myths created by the genius of Robert Chambers. Fantasy literature scholar Everett Bleuler calls the book "the most important in the American horror tradition", Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his famous essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" speaks enthusiastically of The King in Yellow, thus perpetuating Chambers' creative legacy in the field of horror literature, and the creators of the hugely successful True Detective series, which is a kind of example of the aesthetics of the American Southern Gothic, pay tribute to Chambers by filling their plot with many allusions and references to The King in Yellow.
The central element that connects the first part of the stories in the collection is the mysterious and forbidden book The King in Yellow, which makes people lose their minds and do terrible things after reading it. The second part of the collection consists of realistic and partly autobiographical stories about France and Robert Chambers' years of study at the National High School of Fine Arts in Paris. Written in a light and witty style, they depict the bohemian life of art students in early twentieth-century Paris, full of romantic feelings and frivolous antics.
