This has been sat on my bookshelf for at least two years waiting for me to get the urge to read it. I finally have and just in time for all the references in True Detective to start appearing.
The book is a strange sort of thing with the first 4 stories concerning the effects of reading the titular play on different people. These tales are odd and sometimes very dark - 'The Repairer of Reputations' and 'The Yellow Sign' - sometime M.R. James type ghostly - 'In the Court of the Dragon' - and the fourth (or second in chapter order) is kind of lovely. The rest of the book is entirely unrelated to either kings or the colour yellow and are largely forgetable.
Later in his career Chambers made a very good living out of writing romance stories and the seeds are already here whether they are hidden amongst ghost or war stories there is often love in amongst the narrative.
Truly this entire book threw me for a loop. Absolutely not at all what I was expecting but fun nonetheless.
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