# The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers has 71,937 words.

## At a glance

Short story collection by Robert W. Chambers.

- **Author:** [Robert W. Chambers](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-w-chambers.md) (1865–1933)
- **First published:** 1895
- **Original language:** American English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 71,937
- **Reading time:** 4 h 48 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 44 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 48 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h | 8 days |

## Read or listen

The King in Yellow is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-w-chambers/the-king-in-yellow
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492

## 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

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-w-chambers/the-king-in-yellow (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1195112
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8127201W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-king-in-yellow