The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which, The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon and The Yellow Sign, mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. The Yellow Sign inspired a film of the same name released in 2001. The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895 (316 pages).

ロバート・Ｗ・チェンバースの代表作にしてクトゥルー神話の原点、待望の新訳版!! 自殺が合法化された世界で、狂気の野望に取り憑かれた男の顛末を描く「名誉修繕人」。大理石に変じた恋人を巡る芸術家たちの幻想譚「仮面」。不気味なオルガン奏者からの逃亡劇「ドラゴン小路にて」。不吉な夢に追い詰められてゆく恋人たちの悲劇を描く「黄の印」。呪われた戯曲『黄衣の王』を軸に、日常を侵食する邪悪なるものの恐怖を、不穏で緻密な筆致で描く4連作。著者チェンバースの代表作にして、怪奇文学に決定的な影響を与えた傑作ホラーサスペンス。