Robert Chambers T-Shirts

"My mind will bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask."

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

"Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa." Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

"Like swimming squirrels, you navigate with the help of Heaven and a stiff breeze, but you never land where you hope to – do you?" Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

"Songs that the Hyades shall sing/Where flap the tatters of the King/Must die unheard in/Dim Carcosa." To know his is to go mad, and Mr. Chambers' macabre creation had admirers as grand as Lovecraft, who wrote what might be termed fan references into his stories. Here is the King in all his turn-of-the-century glory. Modified from a public domain original in the NYPL.

"We spoke of Hastur and of Cassilda, while outside the fog rolled against the blank window-panes as the cloud waves roll and break on the shores of Hali." - Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

When you're lost in Carcosa and hunger strikes, there's only one place to go!

"Under the tossing ocean the voice of the waters was in my ears – a low, sweet voice, intimate, mysterious. Through singing foam and broad, green, glassy depths, by whispering sandy channels atrial with sea-weed, and on, on, out into the vague, cool sea, I sped, rising to the top, sinking, gliding. Then at last I flung myself out of water, hands raised, and the clamor of the gulls filled my ears." Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

"For those poisoned words had dropped slowly into my heart, as death-sweat drops upon a bed-sheet and is absorbed. Trembling, I put the diadem from my head and wiped my forehead, but I thought of Hastur and of my own rightful ambition (...)" Chambers, Robert W.. The King in Yellow

“(...) a list of thousands of names which Mr. Wilde had drawn up; every man whose name was there had received the Yellow Sign, which no living human being dared disregard." Chambers, Robert W... The King in Yellow

“It is a book of great truths,” I said. “Yes,” he replied, “of ‘truths’ which send men frantic and blast their lives. I don’t care if the thing is, as they say, the very supreme essence of art. It’s a crime to have written it, and I for one shall never open its pages.” Chambers, Robert W... The King in Yellow

"Come and see my rose-coloured bath full of death!" Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

“For I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.” Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

“No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.” Chambers, Robert W.. The King in Yellow

“The city, the State, the whole land, were ready to rise and tremble before the Pallid Mask." Chambers, Robert W... The King in Yellow

“The time had come, the people should know the son of Hastur, and the whole world bow to the black stars which hang in the sky over Carcosa.” Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow." Chambers, Robert W.. The King in Yellow

Outwardly tranquil, I had deceived myself.” “The mask of self-deception was no longer a mask for me, it was a part of me.” “For I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.” “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow

"...the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now."

"...the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now." - Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign

Text treatment of a quote from Robert W. Chambers, from The King in Yellow (1895), including a subtle 'Yellow Sign' at the bottom, made of question marks.

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

This artwork, which was inspired by Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow, portrays the character known as Hastur, who is also referred to as the King in Yellow.

"Aldebaran, the Hyades, Alar, Hastur, glided through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow.”

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

My interpretation of Robert W. Chambers' "Yellow Sign," as if rendered in black onyx and gold: "...inside lay a clasp of black onyx, on which was inlaid a curious symbol or letter in gold. It was neither Arabic nor Chinese, nor, as I found afterwards, did it belong to any human script."

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. —"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"