Robert W. Chanbers’ TheKing in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is“The Prophets’ Paradise,” a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuringpersonifications of Love and Truth, the story’s structure has a palindrome-like quality with internal repetition. Romantic in tone and ambiguous in theme, “The Prophets’ Paradise” is one of Chambers’ more experimental pieces.
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