1st book of 2023 for me and started off with a classic in the Weird Fiction genre. The King in Yellow heavily influenced the nature of H.P. Lovecraft and other horror writers; this can especially be seen in the first four short stories in the collection. These stories were wonderfully weird, tense, and unsettling; however, there lies the problem, the collection doesn’t end after those four stories. The remaining works range from romance to historical fiction and are tremendously bland. The only through thread for these final stories are the setting (Paris) and the occupation of some of the main characters (artists). With this in mind, The King in Yellow receives 3