This is a book of short stories, and although only the first four have relationship to the Mythos with Hastur and the Yellow Sign which strongly influenced H.P. Lovecraft.
The best story is the first one "The Repairer of Reputations" which was written in an Unreliable Narrator style, where the narrator turns out to be the perpetrator.
In the "Forbidden Play", which links the first four stories, the King in Yellow is in Carcosa, the lost city on the Lake of Hali and everyone who sees the second act dies. Fortunately, just the first act is in this book.
In the other stories "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon" and "They Yellow Sign" - the supernatural horror that Lovecraft writes about in his famous essay is not as present as in the first story, and they are more of embellishments to the Mythos than creating them. In the "Mask' a genius artist invents a solution that turns people into statue. It doesn't work out well when his girlfriend is turned into a statue and the artist commits a suicide. In the "Court of the Dragon" a cursed church organist claims the the soul of an unfortunate Parisian and in the "Yellow Sign" two people read the cursed play and an undead churchyard watchman comes to kill them.
The first story is the most important in the collections - the rest can just as well be skimmed through.
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