The Repairer of Reputations

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 Repairer of Reputations" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. 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.