the king in yellow repairer of reputations

Further forced assimilation of Native populations has also been implemented to resemble the use of Cossacks in the military (Chambers belies the extent to which this 'solves' the 'Indian problem' by also noting the installation of an equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan). The rise of a new aristocratic elite in the United States has passed laws that reduce the influence and immigration of those considered foreign, including exclusion of all foreign-born Jews and the establishment of a state for those of African descent. Due to his accident, Hildred is a prime example of an unreliable narrator.Īs related by Hildred, the United States has apparently prospered in the meantime, significantly improving its infrastructure. He is subsequently committed to an asylum for treatment of insanity by Dr. It is told from the view of Hildred Castaigne, a young man whose personality changes drastically following a head injury sustained by falling from his horse.

The story is set in New York City in the year 1920, 25 years after the story's publication. The story is an example of Chambers' horror fiction, and is one of the stories in the collection which contains the motif of the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.

Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. ' The Repairer of Reputations' is a short story published by Robert W. An illustration of Hildred Castaigne, protagonist of the story, reading the eldritch play that serves as the driving plot device and common thread throughout much of The King in Yellow.

The king in yellow repairer of reputations