The King in Yellow

At a glance

Short story collection by Robert W. Chambers.

Author

Robert W. Chambers1865–1933

First published

1895

Original language

American English

Genre

Gothic fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

Readers' rating

3.3 out of 5from 316 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 48 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 44 min as an audiobook.

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Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

1. 1War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy587,287Compare
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4. 4Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling76,944Compare
5. 5MortTerry Pratchett72,154Compare
6. 6White FangJack London72,082Compare
7. 7The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers71,937
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9. 9Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot71,422Compare
10. 10The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald47,094Compare

Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

72,025

Dialogue

28%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

15.3 words

Vocabulary

443 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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