i read a different edition to this (i can't find it) which only contained the first four stories from the original king in yellow collection, the ones actually pertaining to the king in yellow, so i'm not rating this. they were good but somewhat underwhelming to my expectations - the main thing i found interesting was that the repairer of reputations is distinctly science fiction (or rather written in that mode) and that the romance elements of two of them are much stronger than i would expect coming to them without any knowledge of chambers' prior work! skimming the rest of the collection & now knowing it's mostly romances that makes a lot of sense.