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(This Goodreads page could use some work. Mental note to self: fix this one up if I get Librarian status.)This is the second King in Yellow-themed anthology I’ve read, with the other being 'In the Court of the Yellow King'. Yes, I know ‘A Season in Carcosa’ is the famous one. I will take it off my shelf and read it one day, I promise. Though I have at least read its introduction which happens to name-drop this volume ‘Rehearsals for Oblivion: Act One’.The reason for that name-dropping was its in...
Some stories were better than others. Some just try too hard to mimic the classic Chambers collection, others just flat-out weren't very good. Most of the stories, however, were pretty solid if not spectacular. There is even one that centers around Sherlock Holmes! I was satisfied with the book, though if I re-read it at some point there are some stories I would almost certainly skip over.
I first heard about this book through the introduction in "A Season in Carcosa" (the more popular KiY anthology edited by rising star writer Joseph S. Pulver Sr). Granted, when compared to "Seasons," the stories in this collection are not as instantly memorable, shocking, or even as modern. But the stories that do reside in this collection feel more true to the original aesthetic of the King in Yellow, as originally envisioned by Robert Chambers. Robert Chambers did not rely in gore and viscera
A pretty good collection of short stories and poems from a wide variety of writers. This is definitely one of the better collections adding to Chamber's Universe featuring the King in Yellow and Carcosa.Rather bizarrely, it includes two stories by John Scott Tynes, "Ambrose" and "Broadalbin" but not the third one in the trilogy, "Sosotris", which is frustrating because I should like to have read "Sosotris".
Rehearsals for Oblivion, Act One is a book of fiction inspired by the stories of Robert W. Chambers, particularly The King in Yellow. This is a subgenre I have always been fond of, that I have most often encountered in collections of Lovecraftian stories. Purists would argue whether Yellow Sign works should be called mythos fiction (of course most HPL fans like most weird fiction, including Chambers' stuff, so this is where the audience is). HPL admired the Yellow Sign stories and briefly mentio...
Rehearsals For Oblivion is a little known collection set in a world where The King In Yellow (a fictional play created by turn of the century writer R.W. Chambers) lurks under the surface to corrupt the world.This book is a well chosen collection of views from all over the world about the infamous play and how it has affected people's lives. There's a wide variety of settings and people involved in the stories, and even references to other works of Chambers.There are a couple stories that I'm no...
This book is composed of a variety of settings and different takes on the King in Yellow mythos, which I was familiar with before reading. If you haven't heard of the King in Yellow before reading this book, you would probably still enjoy the stories just as much and would likely piece together most of the commonly accepted aspects of the mythos based on what is common between the each story. There are a few nods to earlier works which are fun, but not essential to enjoying the stories. Consider...
A mixed collection of stories inspired by Chambers' King in Yellow, very uneven in tone and sometimes repeating the same ideas. Most of them missed the fact that the damnable play is not a feature player of Chambers' mythos. It is mentioned and alluded to, its presence is a sign of subtle madness in the world, not something that is being portrayed in almost every story.Having said that, the best story of the set is about putting on the play, and the worst barely mentions it at all.The Gems, Stor...
