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"The King in Yellow" is a collection of short stories published by American novelist Robert W. Chambers in 1895. This book has a very classic milestone status in the world of modern British and American fantasy literature. Under its influence, the most classic image of the devil in the history of American literature was born - "The Evil God Cthulhu". "The King in Yellow" has directly or indirectly influenced almost all horror and supernatural novel writers in English since the twentieth century. The title of the book "The King in Yellow" comes from the title of a play made up by the author, and serves as a potential theme to connect the ten short stories in the book. Among them, the first four stories - "The Man Who Repairs His Reputation", "The Mask", "The Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Talisman" all point out that "The King in Yellow" is a banned play. It is said that the script of this play is full of despair and madness and can drive readers crazy, and almost all the protagonists in these four stories die unexpectedly.

"Cthulhu" is the first creation of the universe, 10 fascinating and surprising stories! "The King in Yellow" is a book that was only printed in small quantities and is out of print. After the book was published, it was banned in European and American countries because it is said that anyone who reads this book will without exception fall into madness, cause tragedy and lead to death, and our story begins with a few people who have read "The King in Yellow"..." Among the 10 novels included in "The King in Yellow", although only 4 are horror stories and 2 are weird stories, it does not affect the book's popularity in the world. The author Robert W. Chambers is a classic in the eyes of readers of the "Pan-Cthulhu Circle" and is known as one of the founders of the Cthulhu mythology system. The plots of the first four chapters are all related to a banned book "The King in Yellow", which tells the story of a mental patient who fantasizes about being a descendant of a nobleman, a sculptor with supernatural abilities, a madman chased by the evil spirit of the church, and an artist facing death. The last six chapters are related to the author's academic experience in Paris.