The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers

[@nicola7021]

I’m in the process of prereading for a Horror seminar I’m taking this year and your readings have been an absolute godsend! I swear you’ve covered at least half of the reading list haha! Engaging and enlivening work, thank u!!!

[@ClassicGhost]

Tell me which I haven’t done ? is love to complete the list :)

[@nicola7021]

@@ClassicGhost ahah sure! Here’s a few extras: 1. Demon - Joyce Carol Oates 2. Seaton’s Aunt - Water de la Mere 3. The Happy Autumn Fields - Elizabeth Bowen 4. The Thing in the Forest - A.S. Byatt No pressure, ofc!! But I think these would sound good in your voice :))

[@martiwilliams4592]

Now 3 years later listening with "new ears" , love the accents, vivid narration. Thank you, Tony. You're the best.

[@cynthiaholland13]

As an American I thought I had the wrong channel. Very well done

[@FarmersAreDummies]

Finally, someone reads this classic horror story right! 👌

[@blixten2928]

The BEST reading of this I've heard. The book, the King in Yellow, the artist -- with his beloved who fell in Britanny (a soldier, perhaps, he's gay? one can only hope). Wonderfully done!! -- and as always, your end comments, complete with digressions, really feel like a companionable chat with a fellow-reader. Don't change.

[@silkeeberle8484]

I appreciate you reading in different accents, according to the Story. You are my favorite Reader.

[@ClassicGhost]

I get anxious about the accents. But thank you!

[@rattyrachel4316]

Never before heard of The King In Yellow. A bit like hearing about “snuff movies” for the first time or seeing Psycho at age 13. I think I’ll take an aspirin, some Pepto Bismal, and sleep with the Bible under my pillow tonight. (Your narration was, as usual, superb!)

[@ClassicGhost]

Lol

[@frerindurin3632]

It has been way too long since the last time I was in England. After a bit of madness calms down I would love to take my sister there and hopefully when we go we can go and listen to your stories in person. That is currently a goal of mine!

[@ClassicGhost]

Well, once we get through these restrictions, it's our plan to get on the road again

[@martiwilliams4592]

A story like this MUST be read aloud--by you! Fantastic! With accents- accurate presentations of each and every one of them-- I had to laugh at the American-hit so close to home I winced (ouch) :0). And the sound effects together with your way of reading enhances this story, much more than merely the written page would do. Very scary! Please continue what you do. Thank you! W.ould like to come over from Denmark. if I win the sweepstakes.:0)

[@glosteiger2517]

When this first started I thought I had tapped on the wrong story. The accent is great. I loved the story.

[@yaayaa7742]

Thanks!

[@micahmiller6326]

Excellent reading. Your new york accent is very convincing. Thank you.

[@ClassicGhost]

You are very; kind.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Thank you, Tony

[@bethpemberton7980]

Ooooo, spooky!! Well read, Tony. You do accents so well I forgot it was you!!

[@earthcat]

You do an excellent American.

[@a.t.3168]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@binarynightmare]

Just found your readings of this and The Repairer of Reputations, really good stuff! Your accents were quite seamless I'd say. I will say two things though, one about Chambers himself: he was, apparently, more known for writing romance fiction and suddenly shifted towards weird fiction! And about the King in Yellow itself, there's an idea that it's less a generic "evil book" that magically makes you crazy and summons monsters (an idea thoroughly the invention of writers after HPL), and more that the book itself, or rather the play it is a script for, IS the phenomenon. Even acting it out in your mind is a danger. It undoes your sense of reality vs. fiction, and when these two things become blurred, logic breaks down and you become Castaigne who was the King of America and descended from alien royalty, or this poor artist found with a dead model and decomposing corpse. Whether this is really happening or is a meditation on artistic decadence, unreliable narrators, and the prevalence of yellow as a colour of madness, is up to the reader.

[@ClassicGhost]

Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. Great analysis!

[@richardferguson6893]

I hadn't thought of yellow as being associated with madness but as soon as i read that, i thought of "The Yellow Wallpaper".

[@seanhill76]

@@richardferguson6893 Oh yeah, the colour yellow was a big deal around the turn of the century. I'm far from qualified to talk about it at length but you have it in these stories and Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper. In colour theory yellow can be bright and vivid, or sickly and manic. Yellow is warning colour, after all.

[@t.t.5324]

Thank you for the story.

[@janetcw9808]

Great stuff, thank you Xxx

[@gregnicholls8347]

Had to check I'd opened up the right video the voice is so good.

[@ClearlyChosen]

Thanks Tony. Enjoy your reading. Just started listening to all your ghostly stories. Occurred to me if you would consider doing Ghost Stories from around the world by doing more stories, not just from the Western libraries, but from the often scarier realms of Asian hauntings and horror stories.

[@ClassicGhost]

I have an Indian one from Victorian times. But I know there are some famous Japanese and Chinese ones I could look into

[@jameshose5043]

another great one

[@Josephinejefferies]

Enjoyed this

[@daemeonation3018]

This is one of my favorite stories. I wrote a DnD adventure based on this.

[@ClassicGhost]

Ah that's great. Very interesting

[@jimmiescherman1062]

Great story

[@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv]

Tony, you're amazing. Have you any plans to read the King in Yellow?

[@split-wb7bg]

Excellent.

[@ClassicGhost]

Many thanks!

[@GodOfPlague]

King in yellow is a fun collection of stories. I own an audio book copy of it. As well as digital copy. I bought your dracula recording and have been listening to it.

[@ClassicGhost]

I bow down to you for that. I do like King in Yellow. My daughter has borrowed my copy

[@pakde8002]

26:21 Sometimes its better not to think too much

[@ajcbng8289]

I could have lived my whole life without hearing the words "grave worm." 👀😂 I'm going to hope for a dreamless sleep...

[@missdaisysunshine8633]

I wish the priest would what??? What??? It is cut off on KZbin music...ack....cut off here, too....arrgh...how did it end???

[@ClassicGhost]

That’s how the story ends

[@missdaisysunshine8633]

@ClassicGhost ooooo. LOL never heard of that before...thanks!

[@anindk2049]

Greetings from Australia. i sincerely wish i could visit one of your haunted house/ghost story weekend getaways. Maybe oneday!

[@ClassicGhost]

They aren't going on right now, but one day. Hey, I would love to come to do one in Australia

[@anindk2049]

@@ClassicGhost Yea you should visit Oz! It's a beautiful country!

[@KensN2History]

"A coffin worm". Takes me back many years to when I was a boy fishing on my fathers land. There was an old tree stump beside the pond and i saw the most awful looking huge red worm writhing amongst the wet rotten wood. I know it was one of Gods creatures but I was completely repulsed by it. Just a thought.

[@mijiyoon5575]

*True Detective* Season One was where I think I heard of this the first time. *The King in Yellow* I'm referring to; although, it has nothing to do w/this story; the part from TD S1 I've yet to find anywhere. Maybe I shouldn't find it...HA!!!🙄😑

[@ClassicGhost]

And true detective series one was great! Real folk horror

[@mijiyoon5575]

@@ClassicGhost Agree

[@geraldinetaeckens5873]

👏👏👏👍💮

[@thelorriesweeneyable]

Your American accent is better than some American that live here. Trust me

[@vanillasuncherries]

maybe he was also trying to put a moral warning to stay away from the occult in the story do you think?

[@ClassicGhost]

+@vanillasuncherries not sure tbh

[@peterbianchi6219]

But ... this ain't Tony reading ... is it? It's a guest, right? But then the kid ... I'm confused. But "c" is my middle initial.

[@ClassicGhost]

no, that’s me

[@markferguson3745]

Yeah, - I hate it when girls I enjoy turn tough or fly as well.

[@elissamillman4620]

Your choice of stories are too creepy for me. I know associate your voice with horrible stories!

[@ClassicGhost]

I can't tell whether you're pulling me leg, so I don't know how to respond.

[@ellethekitten]

I enjoy Tony's readings,but I hate his commentary.