The Yellow Sign and Other Stories

The Yellow Sign and Other Stories

Details

Publisher: Oakland, CA : Chaosium, Inc., 2000

Page Count: 667 p.

Author(s): Robert W. Chambers; S. T. Joshi, editor

Artist(s): H. E. Fassl, cover; Dave Carson, illustrations

Summary

The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers.

Contents

• Introduction, S.T. Joshi
• The King in Yellow (selections)
  • "The Repairer of Reputations"
  • "The Mask"
  • "In the Court of the Dragon"
  • "The Yellow Sign"
  • "The Demoiselle d'Ys"
  • "The Prophets' Paradise" (poems)
• The Maker of Moons (selections)
  • "The Maker of Moons"
  • "A Pleasant Evening"
• The Mystery of Choice (selections)
  • "The Purple Emperor"
  • "Pompe Funèbre"
  • "The Messenger"
  • "The White Shadow"
  • "Passeur"
  • "The Key to Grief"
• In Search of the Unknown (complete)
  • Chapters 1-5 ("The Harbor-Master")
  • Chapters 6-8 ("The Spirit of the North")
  • Chapters 9-12 ("The Ux-Skin")
  • Chapters 13-17 ("The Sphyx")
  • Chapters 18-21 ("The Thermosaurus")
  • Chapters 22-25 ("The Pythagoreans")
• The Tracer of Lost Persons (excerpt)
  • Chapters 17-20
• The Tree of Heaven (stories)
  • "The Carpet of Belshazzar"
  • "The Sign of Venus"
  • "The Case of Mr. Helmer"
  • "The Bridal Pair"
  • "Out of the Depths"
• Police!!!

Comments, Trivia

Chaosium publication 6023. ISBN 1-56882-170-0. Part of the Call of Cthulhu Fiction line.

The novel, The Slayer of Souls (1920), is not included in this collection because Joshi considers it "an actual novel and not a succession of short stories" (unlike In Search of the Unknown or Police!!!). Nevertheless, The Slayer of Souls mentions a city called "Yian" (probably the source of "Yian-Ho") and a people called the "Tchortchas" (who, while there is no literary evidence connecting them to the Tcho-Tcho People, may be considered to be cognates by speculative readers).

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