Rehearsals for Oblivion, Act I: Tales of the King in Yellow

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.

Considering how different each story was in terms of setting, characters, and atmosphere, I found most of them appealing. They were all linked by The King in Yellow, but even with that similarity no two stories handled it in quite the same way. There is some poetry speckled in amongst the stories, which I enjoyed as a change of pace, but overall I didn't find the poems exceptional.