_The King in Yellow_ is a collection of ten short stories, four them tales of supernatural horror that are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title. The play within the stories drives those who read it to illness and possible insanity and leaves them in a dazed state, speaking about unexplained mythological terms. The first season of _True Detective_ frequently alluded to _The King in Yellow_, spurring renewed interest in this touchstone paragon of the genre. This Warbler Classics edition includes an excerpt from H. P. Lovecraft's critical study _Supernatural Horror in Literature,_ in which he comments on this enduring work of imagination, as well as a detailed biographical note.