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Summary

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One of the stranger pieces in landmark collection The King in Yellow, this is not a conventional story but a sequence of brief, dreamlike prose poems. Across fragments bearing titles like "The Studio," "The Phantom," "The Sacrifice," and "Destiny," a shadowy voice drifts through scenes of love, betrayal, masks, and mortality. Elliptical and unsettling, the piece trades plot for mood – conjuring the same atmosphere of decadent dread and creeping unreality that haunts the rest of Chambers's cycle, where beauty and doom are forever entwined.

Duration: 8 minutes (00:08:24)
Publishing date: 2026-05-29; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Poetry & Theatre
• Horror