The Repairer of Reputations

In this lavishly illustrated flip volume hardcover, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror on one side, with his inspiration from Robert W. Chambers’s horror classic The King in Yellow printed on the other.

Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this objet features a flip volume dual-sided cover, illustrated full-color endpapers, and 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.

On the flip side of this gorgeously illustrated volume, Park presents the horror classic that inspired him: Robert W. Chambers’s “The Repairer of Reputations,” the groundbreaking tale of paranoia and obsession that launched The King in Yellow.

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.