![]() ![]() In fact, Chamber's stories of decadent artists, transgressive love and world-warping guilt are a poor match for the Mythos and contain no tentacles whatsoever (they are possibly an even worse match for the first season of True Detective, but people find inspiration where they find it). ![]() It is presumably as a result of this that Hastur, Carcosa and the Yellow Sign have since been incorporated into what is termed the Cthulhu Mythos – that increasingly loose set of tropes based upon Lovecraft's own fictional work. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft included Chamber's collection in his round up of classic weird fiction. In "Supernatural Horror in Literature", his influential essay of 1945, Howard P. Some of the characters and locations, a few quotes and details of the plot are scattered throughout these stories, but reading the play in its entirety is said to drive you mad. The play is described as a masterpiece of decadent aesthetics. It contains some magnificent individual pieces, including "The Yellow Sign" and "The Repairer of Reputations", which allude to a mysterious play entitled "The King in Yellow". The King in Yellow is the title of a short story collection by Robert W. Before discussing Thom Ryng's creation, some clarifications are in order. ![]()
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