#robert chambers

[miskatonicaquarium]

The King in Yellow by Deimos-Remus

[slumbucket]

Carcosa: used in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers 1895

[vvanillavveins]

I'm starting to think that The Magnus Archives has somewhat ruined all other horror for me. A couple of days ago, i read The King in Yellow, and all i've been able to think in those two days since is: "if only Mr. Scott had access to a modern freezer, he seems like the type to put the book in a bowl of ice and walk away...", usually followed by something along the lines of: "wait, no- just burying it in wet concrete could've saved a good handful of these characters i reckon...", like the inevitability of it isn't the whole damn point of the book in the first place.

[triplexmile]

Preview! Someone suggested I draw Raven as "The Queen in Yellow" and so I did that. This was actually one of the first pictures I made in Procreate, though it took me a while to complete it. I had a hard time deciding what to do with the background. Well, I decided. If anyone can guess who the Special Guest Character of this picture is before I post it, you get one million Bonus Points.

[windsweptinred]

WIP update, so no colour added yet. But I did spend Christmas giving him a marvellous tentacle border. Because you just can't be an eldritch Lovecraftian horror without tentacles. NOW... Yellow. Lots of yellow.

[mad-scientist-enthusiast]

I haven't listened to Malevolent in a while and I often forget it exists. I am much more familiar with Chambers' King in Yellow stories...

This makes it all the more shocking to me when sock puppet and/or babygirlified fanart of the podcast tagged as the King in Yellow comes across my dash.

I'm bewildered and amazed every time I see it, because you people are out here fanarting the eldritch god from a short story collection published in 1895.

This never fails to amuse and entertain me. Keep up the good work.

(Disclaimer ↓)

Yes I know it's not technically fanart of the book it's fanart of a podcast of a Call of Cthulhu campaign inspired by the book.

But you have to at least give yourselves credit for spreading 19th century cosmic horror around fandom spaces!

[manglednatalia]

Oh my God, they were acquaintances

[lodgeofthecat]

We're playing Signalis

Tonite we Ascend to Carcosa at his side! https://www.twitch.tv/schoolofthecat

[the-book-wyrm-reviews]

The King in Yellow

By Robert W Chambers

Book Wyrm's Review is under the cut

Page Count: Ranges from 108 - 330 pages per book depending on the publisher and/or year it was reprinted

Estimated Word Count: 79000

Genres: Decadent literature, horror, supernatural, weird, romance

Year of Publication: 1895

Overview

A man pursued by a church organist who wants his soul. An artist plagued by repeated sightings of a watchman who looks like a coffin worm. Ghosts, wayward cats, and scientific dabblings with dire consequences. Each of these ten tales is chilling in its own right, but taken together, they weave a wickedly eerie spell that is sure to enthrall.

United by vague references to a play with the same name, which never appears in the book―a play that "induces despair or madness in those who read it"―The King in Yellow is undoubtedly Robert W. Chambers' finest work. The book quickly gained an influence over generations of writers of "weird tales," long before there was even a name for them. H. P. Lovecraft greatly admired the book, hailing it as achieving "notable heights of cosmic fear."

Chambers' genius will take readers to the most horrifying place of all―their own imaginations.

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★★★☆☆ = 3/5 Stars

I went into reading this book expecting Lovecraft and wound up reading short stories. Yes all of the stories are interconnected but its not the insanity that the book had been hyped up to have.

Why name the book "the King in Yellow" and yet only reference the book of the play and the insanity and blasphemy that book/story/play is causing? I Digress.

For the book as written, it is a good story though deffinately a product of its writers time. Being written in 1895, It does have situations, names, and terms that may or may not upset more modern readers.

As for me, I would love to ACTUALLY read the story of the King in Yellow, not just the stories referencing the play/story so that I could properly experience a more horrific kind of story but for that, alas, I will need to turn to H.P. Lovecraft if I want horrors beyond my own comprehension.

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[imsupposedtobestudying-whoops]

No Mask? No gloves either, apparently...

[monstrouscrew]

maltober day 12 (The King and His Cult)

prompts by @marimo-art

(ID in the alt text)

[vinty-ash-12]

Cassilda's Song

I love this song poem from "The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers." A handwriting warm-up.

I apologized that my handwriting is unreadable 😅.

Pen: Parker IM Fountain pen medium nib

[billlaotian]

[windsweptinred]

@ibrithir-was-here, we've talked about The Sandman - The Cthulhu Mythos before and playing with the notion of the Dreamlands.

Is it just me or does Dream's (we're assuming) very first facet, that precieved by the Outer Gods... Seem very King in Yellow coded? That image of the tattered cloak and tentacles is synonymous with 'Hastur'. It's a intriguing possible connection considering how heavily both beings are associated with the arts, stories and the power of the written word. That and the duel narrative around the King in Yellow being both dred feaster and benign shepard. A god that was never part of the lovecraftian mythos but incorporated in...

It could be very fun to play with? That the Dreaming in its infancy, at the conception of the universe, made up of the dreams of eldritch deities and young stars, could be Carcosa? The identity of Cassilda and Camilla. The Yellow sign being Dream's earliest sigil. And it and the novel/plays sanity warping properties, are a result of this being an aspect of Dream of the Endless humanity was NEVER meant to know. Let alone try and comprehend.

[butt-shooter]

[shining-dawn]

Ok, someone else who's read The King in Yellow anthology please back me up on this: I know it's not intentional but I feel the POV character of "The Mask" really reads as bisexual and the whole main trio gives off polycule vibes. Like, Alec says he's in love with Genevieve, but the entire time he's delirious with fever he's thinking about both her and Boris. And the instant he's lucid the first person he asks for is Boris? Please tell me I'm not crazy, I think Robert Chambers accidentally wrote a bisexual.