The Repairer of Reputations
Sep 2026 · Soho Press
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror, along with his inspiration from Robert W. Chambers’s horror classic The King in Yellow.
Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this ebook features interior art.
Sid Feelings, a successful children’s entertainer, is trapped in a modern nightmare. She’s canceled when a man with whom she shares a name commits a heinous crime. The trouble is only beginning when she hires a mysterious specialist to salvage what’s left of her career. Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park’s “The Repairer of Reputations” offers an all-too-real hellscape at the intersection of slashers and cyberspace. And illuminating his original story, Park presents the horror classic that first
introduced the world to the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.
Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this ebook features interior art.
Sid Feelings, a successful children’s entertainer, is trapped in a modern nightmare. She’s canceled when a man with whom she shares a name commits a heinous crime. The trouble is only beginning when she hires a mysterious specialist to salvage what’s left of her career. Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park’s “The Repairer of Reputations” offers an all-too-real hellscape at the intersection of slashers and cyberspace. And illuminating his original story, Park presents the horror classic that first
introduced the world to the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.
Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror, along with his inspiration from Robert W. Chambers’s horror classic The King in Yellow.
Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this ebook features interior art.
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Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and Personal Days, the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis, and the memoir Three Tenses. A founding editor of The Believer, he lives in Manhattan and teaches writing at Princeton University. In 2025, Park received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Deborah Pease Prize.
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was the author of over eighty novels and short story collections. Born in Brooklyn, Chambers studied in Paris and Munich before beginning his New York City career as an artist and writer. His fiction has been made into over twenty films and has inspired generations of artists in multiple genres and mediums. He is best known for his 1895 collection The King in Yellow, now a cult classic.
Jeff Wong is an illustrator, graphic designer, and rare book collector. A long-time regular contributor to National Lampoon and Cracked, he has been the Design Director at Weird Tales magazine since 2012. His cover art for Sports Illustrated’s 50th Anniversary Issue depicting the Sistine Chapel ceiling (with sports figures) was shown at the Society of Illustrators and awarded both the Gold and Silver Medals by the Society of Publication Designers.
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was the author of over eighty novels and short story collections. Born in Brooklyn, Chambers studied in Paris and Munich before beginning his New York City career as an artist and writer. His fiction has been made into over twenty films and has inspired generations of artists in multiple genres and mediums. He is best known for his 1895 collection The King in Yellow, now a cult classic.
Jeff Wong is an illustrator, graphic designer, and rare book collector. A long-time regular contributor to National Lampoon and Cracked, he has been the Design Director at Weird Tales magazine since 2012. His cover art for Sports Illustrated’s 50th Anniversary Issue depicting the Sistine Chapel ceiling (with sports figures) was shown at the Society of Illustrators and awarded both the Gold and Silver Medals by the Society of Publication Designers.
Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and Personal Days, the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis, and the memoir Three Tenses. A founding editor of The Believer, he lives in Manhattan and tea...
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