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It is a book such virulent evil that even a glance leads one down a path of madness and death. That book's title is The King in Yellow, as is this one, Robert W. Chambers's collection of semi-related tales about a spectral being who can control individual destinies from a distant and monstrously cursed planet. It is an odd amalgam of two books, really, the initial stories centering on the spectral horror theme, the later ones being more or less conventional romances set in the Bohemian Quarter of Paris in wartime in the late 19th Century. These stories exercised major influence on later writers in the Horror genre, in particular H. P. Lovecraft.