The Prophets' Paradise is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. The story is a collection of short, prose-poetic pieces that have seemingly no connection to each other.
The work opens with the poem:
"If but the Vine and Love Abjuring Band
Are in the Prophets' Paradise to stand,
Alack, I doubt the Prophets' Paradise,
Were empty as the hollow of one's hand."