The King in Yellow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The King in Yellow, credited to Robert W. Chambers, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox's public domain recording of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. Read by Peter Yearsley Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of "The King In Yellow". This is a collection of the first half of this work of short stories which have an eerie, other-worldly feel to it; but the stories in the second half are essentially love stories, strongly coloured by the author's life as an artist in France. Only the first half of the collection of stories is presented here: the earlier stories are all coloured by the background presence of a play, "The King In Yellow" itself, which corrupts those who read it, and opens them to horrible experiences and to visions of a ghastly other world, lit by dark stars and distorted skies. This half of the collection is completed by a few very short pieces and two rather strange and beautiful stories of love and time, loneliness and death. (summary by Peter Yearsley) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The King in Yellow
• Author credits: Robert W. Chambers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Combined MP3 track duration: 4:38:09

Catalogue topics

• book
• the king in yellow
• chambers
• robert w. chambers
• free

Track guide

1. The Repairer of Reputations - Part One — 25:00
2. The Repairer of Reputations - Part Two — 29:32
3. The Repairer of Reputations - Part Three — 34:30
4. The Mask — 48:54
5. The Court Of The Dragon — 24:24
6. The Yellow Sign — 49:01
7. The Demoiselle DYS — 39:49
8. The Prophet's Paradise — 9:09
9. The Street of the Four Winds — 17:49

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