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"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

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?"

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

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

The Yellow Sign is a symbol first mentioned in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories The King in Yellow (1895). The stories mention the play The King in Yellow, a forbidden work which induces despair and madness in those who read it.. H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Chambers' book and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works. In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, the Yellow Sign is the sign of The Great Old One, Hastur, and is used by members of his cult to identify one another.

The windswept lands that lie around fell Carcosa scream the names of souls lost to it's fell ruler. The Yellow King looks out from his throne with a baleful eye, and dreams of doom. For fans of the mythos, all things Lovecraftian, and cosmic horror. A great gift for someone who loves dark art and fantastical imagery.

The King in Yellow

A design depicting the quest of Roland Deschain, last of Arthur Eld's line, to catch Marten Broadcloak and eventually find and enter The Dark Tower. "The man in black fled across the desert. and the Gunslinger followed."

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa.

At last I was King, King by my right in Hastur, King because I knew the mystery of the Hyades, and my mind had sounded the depths of the Lake of Hali. I was King! Chambers, Robert W... The King in Yellow;

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

"...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?

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

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

Send your friends word from afar that you, too, have seen the black stars and twin suns of Carcosa, and perhaps the Yellow Sign itself! Odds are you won't be back.

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

The King In Yellow

The Yellow Sign is a symbol first mentioned in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories The King in Yellow (1895). The stories mention the play The King in Yellow, a forbidden work which induces despair and madness in those who read it.. H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Chambers' book and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works. In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, the Yellow Sign is the sign of The Great Old One, Hastur, and is used by members of his cult to identify one another.

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

"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.

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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?

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

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

"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

"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

"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.