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| title = The King in Yellow
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| author = Robert W. Chambers
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A collection of stories about artists in Paris, half of those are very romantic and the other half involve a mysterious play that induce madness on those who read it.
| genre = Horror, Supernatural
| publication date = 1895
| source page exists =
| wiki URL = https://kinginyellow.fandom.com/wiki/Have_You_Seen_The_Yellow_Sign%3F
| wiki name = The Yellow Site: The King in Yellow Wiki
}}
'''''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow]''''' is a rather surreal collection of short stories by [[Robert W. Chambers]] published in 1895. The stories are scattered all over the map between horror and romance, but all generally have ties to France as a setting, the later ones moving more and more into romance and increasingly starring artists. A common thread is a fictional play also called ''The King in Yellow'', the reading of which either drives people mad or leads them to a dark fate.
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[[H.P. Lovecraft]] cited this book as an influence, and it's the direct<ref>Chambers himself got it from a short story by [[Ambrose Bierce]], "Haïta the Shepherd", in which it's just a shepherd's god</ref> source of {{spoiler|Hastur}}'s name. According to Lovecraft's friend and fellow writer [[August Derleth]], the actual performance of ''The King in Yellow'' is a summoning ritual for an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
Several authors have crafted [[Defictionalization|facsimiles of the "real" text of Chambers' fictional play]], including playwright Thom Ryng's 1999 version, which premiered at the Capitol Theater in Olympia WA and has seen two printings from Armitage
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* [[During the War]]: "The Street of the First Shell"
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The lost city of Carcosa, located somewhere in the Hyades, "where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali. . ."
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** One character even mentions seeing it in bookstores. . .
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: This is one of the texts Lovecraft was inspired by, after all. Notably, the King In Yellow himself is (seemingly) absent from the actual book, but he is the one that made the [[Brown Note|play named after him]]. Book covers (and many depictions, before and after the internet arrived) generally depict him as a humanish being wearing [[Light Is Not Good|bright yellow]] robes.
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