Audio Readings from "The Yellow Sign"

A post by AudioBoo's user "mattins" contains a nicely read fragment from Robert W. Chambers' weird cycle, The King in Yellow. The piece is from the book's most notable story, "The Yellow Sign." In it, our artist narrator and his model come upon the maddening tome. The beauty of Chambers' prose is reflected in this passage, alongside his adeptness at building the tense support structures of weird atmosphere.

Unfortunately, this passionate reader's selection is short lived. For a less emotive, but full version of this story and others from The King in Yellow, listen to these readings on Librivox. The MP3 files will probably need to be downloaded, as they're in the range of several dozen megabytes or more. While the Librivox version of Chambers' tales could use a little more stylistic "umph," there is plenty of room for competition. Robert W. Chambers, like Lovecraft, is an author who has most (if not all) of his weird tales in the public domain.

-Grim Blogger