King In Yellow Pillows

King in Yellow horned skull.

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask. Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! —Robert W. Chambers, “The King in Yellow”

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?" - Robert W. Chambers, "The Yellow Sign"

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

Inspired by eastern orthodox schema monks, these vestments are de rigueur for the aspiring cultist!

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

"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?

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

The original depiction of The King in Yellow

Do you know about Carcosa? Have you read The King in Yellow? Do you see the yellow sign? Inspired by Robert W. Chambers fantastic vision of a play that will drive you mad.

Hastur

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

Hastur

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

"My mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask."

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask. Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! —Robert W. Chambers, “The King in Yellow” Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

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King in Yellow design I made for a Cthulhu Mythos Poker deck

The cover for Robert W Chambers popular kid's story, "The King In Yellow". Can you help Mr King In YEllow find his way back to lost Carcosa? Heart stopping cosmic horror for children. Or things that look like children - but as you get closer, a growing sense of wrongness grows inside you, the sensation of missing a stair step as you begin the plunge into madness.

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

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

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

Depiction of The King in Yellow as a cosmic entity.

The King in Yellow

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

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

The King In Yellow

My interpretation of a version of Robert W. Chambers' "Yellow Sign," as if rendered in black onyx and gold. "It was neither Arabic nor Chinese, nor, as I found afterwards, did it belong to any human script."

Highly detailed design of The King in Yellow. Abstractly elegant while darkly imposing, this labor of love is perfect for any one who has seen the yellow sign.

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

"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

Original book art distressed and remade for wearing.

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

Have you found the Yellow Sign?