Praise for The Repairer of Reputations
Publishers Weekly Top 10 Horror, SciFi & Fantasy of Fall
“This gorgeous illustrated flip volume collects two stories bearing the same title: the lead tale from Robert W. Chambers’s influential 1895 horror collection The King in Yellow, and a contemporary riff on the material from Pulitzer finalist Park (Same Bed Different Dreams) . . . Wong’s striking illustrations and an insightful introduction from Park round things out. Demonstrating how genre classics continue to inform the best modern work, this is a gift for horror fans.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[An] eerie curio… Park, who’s gifted at assuming various genre forms, delivers an entertainingly pulpy story here, with plenty of dark humor and lurid scenes, while remaining smart about character.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“With The Repairer of Reputations, the multitalented Ed Park riffs on one of Robert W. Chambers’s most famous stories, bringing it into the twenty-first century’s era of instant misinformation and hysteria. A smart, compelling story about the ease and speed with which our lives may unravel, and our inability to look away from ourselves and our personal catastrophes, no matter the consequences.”
—John Langan, author of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions
“Ed Park’s The Repairer of Reputations is a brilliant riff on the Chambers classic and the doomy, creepy now. If we’re all stuck in Carcosa at least we have Ed on our side.”
—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie
Praise for Ed Park
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
Time Best Book of the Year
NPR Best Book of the Year
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
“The James Joyce of Korean American literature, and of our times.”
—Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife
“One of the things that I find consistently astonishing about his work is the way that he’s always exploding lines, exploding genre distinctions, creating a really interesting weave . . . Really smart, really playful.”
—Press Play, KCRW
“Ed Park writes books that are easy to love and hard to define. His writing is hilarious but also serious; chaotic while still cohesive; irreverent and earnest all at once.”
—Shelf Awareness (2025 Best Books of the Year)
“Always witty, sometimes surreal, frequently diving beneath mundane surfaces to mysterious and mesmerizing depths.”
—Chicago Review of Books
“I could not stop reading, thinking, and dreaming about Same Bed Different Dreams . . . A feverish, mind-altering marvel of a book.”
—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Stay True
“To speak of Park’s creativity is also to speak of his humanity—empathy is a function of the imagination, of course, and it makes sense that a mind capable of dreaming these worlds and sisterverses would also be able to endow them with spirits as vivid and complex as our own. It’s dazzling, this steady carousel of delight and stunned awe.”
—Kaveh Akbar, New York Times–bestselling author of Martyr!
“I’ll throw my gauntlet down and say that Ed Park is the funniest prose writer in America.”
—LitHub
