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The King In Yellow (The Play)
The King In Yellow is the dread play at the heart of the stories that form the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers. As first described, in The Repairer Of Reputations: "When -
Carcosa
Carcosa is a fictional city at the heart of the Carcosa Mythos. It was first mentioned in the Ambrose Bierce short story An Inhabitant of Carcosa (first published 1886). In Bierce's story, the ancient -
The King In Yellow
A powerful and mysterious nonhuman being, bringer of madness and doom, associated with the play of the same name. Going by the original stories, The King In Yellow (the play) is linked in some nebulous -
Cassilda's Song
Cassilda is first brought to our attention through her song at the beginning of Robert W. Chambers' book The King In Yellow. The words, which preface the first story, give the first hints of mysterious -
The King In Yellow (The Book)
The King In Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose first edition appeared in 1895. The book could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic, but it also -
Hastur
Hastur (The Unspeakable One, He Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, or Kaiwan) is a being usually referred to as part of The Cthulhu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short -
The Yellow Sign (the symbol)
The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book The King In Yellow. Its nature is unknown, but it seems to possess a strange siren call to the -
Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?
THE WIKI FOR THE KING IN YELLOW, THE HASTUR MYTHOS AND ALL THINGS CARCOSA If you are unfamiliar with The Yellow Mythos, please see the'Welcome' box to the right for some general background information -
The King In Yellow (Reconstructing The Play)
plus a reference to the last lines of the first act. Chambers offers some idea of what might be in the play, but only tangentially – and it is unclear exactly what is written in the -
Cassilda
Cassilda is one of the key characters from The King In Yellow, who is quoted by Robert W. Chambers in the original collection of stories. She is one of only three characters known for certain -
Yhtill
Person or city. In Chamber's The King in Yellow it is referenced only once, in the story The Repairer of Reputations: -
Introduction To The Mythos
The Yellow Mythos is a loosely-linked continuity that has come to define the imagined universe revolving around'The King In Yellow', a fictional, mysterious play in book form, which supposedly can send its readers -
True Detective
True Detective is an American television anthology drama series on HBO, created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, with the first season directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Season one stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as -
Call of Cthulhu RPG
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on the story of the same name written by H. P. Lovecraft and The Cthulhu Mythos the story inspired. The game, often abbreviated as -
Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) was an American artist and writer, the author of the late-19th century short story collection The King In Yellow, upon which The Yellow Mythos has so much of its -
The Imperial Dynasty of America
The Imperial Dynasty of America refers to two different things - a manuscript and an actual dynasty associated with Carcosa. Whilst this version of the document appears in the alternate 1920s (or just in the delusions -
More Light
Story in The Hastur Cycle by James Blish. The narrator meets with Bill Atheling, who has recently married the artist Samantha Brock. They discuss Robert W. Chambers and his book, The King In Yellow. Bill -
Hildred Castaigne
Hildred Castaigne (Hildred de Calvados Castaigne) is the primary character of The Repairer of Reputations, both protagonist and narrator, albeit unreliably. He begins his story by telling us about the world of alternate 1920s, which -
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (這いよれ! ニャル子さん lit. Crawling Up! Nyarlko-san) is a Japanese light novel series written by Manta Aisora and illustrated by Koin. First volume was -
Hastur - The Origin of the Name
Hastur was first named by Ambrose Bierce in Haita The Shepherd. The name appears to be entirely his invention and it has been suggested that it may have been inspired by the kingdom of Asturias -
The Yellow Mythos
The Yellow Mythos is a name that has come to refer to the whole fictional universe covered in this wiki. This is due to the continuity being rooted, most fundamentally, in Chambers' book The King -
The Repairer of Reputations
Story in The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. It has, itself, been adapted into a play as The King In Yellow: A Spectral Tragedy. This story is set in a 1920s that never -
Camilla
Camilla is one of the key characters from The King In Yellow, who is quoted by Robert W. Chambers in the original collection of stories. She is one of only three characters known for certain -
First Act
Our knowledge of the play The King In Yellow is largely restricted to its first act, and is not much. In The Repairer of Reputations it is said that the "banality and innocence of the -
Location of Carcosa
The actual location of the city of Carcosa is difficult to determine, if, indeed, it has one single location at all. Carcosa is usually located on the shores of Lake Hali, or possibly Lake Demhe
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