Cossiol reviewed El Rey de Amarillo by Robert W. Chambers
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3 stars
Déu els digué: arrancada de cavall i arribada d'ase
Hardcover, 398 pages
Chinese language
Published by 北京时代华文书局.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5699-3138-9
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“《黄衣》是一部仅仅少量印刷的书籍，已经少量，书出版后在欧美各国被查，因为据说凡读过此书的人无一例外会陷入疯狂，招来惨剧，导致死亡，而我们的故事，就从几个读过《黄衣》的人身边开始……” 《黄衣》收入的10篇小说中，虽然只有4篇是恐怖故事，2篇是诡异故事，却毫不影响本书成为全世界“泛克苏鲁圈”读者们心目中的旷世经典，作者罗伯特·W.钱伯斯更是被誉为克苏鲁神话体系的奠基人之一。前4篇的故事情节都与一本《黄衣》有关，讲述了幻想自己是贵族后裔的精神病人、有自然能力的雕刻家、被教堂邪气追逐的疯子，以及面临死亡的艺术家的故事。后6篇则与作者在巴黎的学艺经历有关。
This book changed my life, possibly not for the better.
In the autumn of 1998, I found myself walking the oak-lined streets of an old city, on a sultry subtropical night. I looked up through the narrow alley between the branches, and saw the rubicund light of Aldebaran gleaming at me. I was at a dead-end in my studies, and knew it, and had no better plans. At the moment the star's light fell on me, I felt a change; my frustration with my life slipped away, replaced by a bittersweet longing for another life I had known only in my dreams. It was soon after that I came into possession of a small press's library-bound edition of The King In Yellow. I had heard it mentioned, of course, in Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature", but in those days, the book was not widely reprinted, nor well-known outside of the small weird fiction community.
Oh, the poisonous beauty of …
In the autumn of 1998, I found myself walking the oak-lined streets of an old city, on a sultry subtropical night. I looked up through the narrow alley between the branches, and saw the rubicund light of Aldebaran gleaming at me. I was at a dead-end in my studies, and knew it, and had no better plans. At the moment the star's light fell on me, I felt a change; my frustration with my life slipped away, replaced by a bittersweet longing for another life I had known only in my dreams. It was soon after that I came into possession of a small press's library-bound edition of The King In Yellow. I had heard it mentioned, of course, in Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature", but in those days, the book was not widely reprinted, nor well-known outside of the small weird fiction community.
Oh, the poisonous beauty of it! The hints that lead you on to a precipice over the cloud-waves of Hali, and leave you there, unsatisfied and precarious!
I'll not spoil the experience for you, except to note that the Paris art student stories of the second half of the book, so often thought to be out of place in this collection, actually have subtle ties to the better-known horror stories.
Subjects
- supernatural