Cthulhu Yellow Sign Tank Tops

Wear the mark of Hastur the Unspeakable and join in the cosmic madness

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.

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"Have you seen 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”

This is the most famous one, inspired by Kevin A. Ross interpretation. “…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.” Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow, [The Yellow Sign]

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

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

The dreaded Nightguants of the realm of dreams. Something for the Lovecraft fans

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

"Have you seen 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

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 seen 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

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

Those who try to find the Yellow King all too often will, much to their great peril. Add a little cosmic horror to your life with this item, and show that you have seen what lies beneath the hooded cowl of that fell creature.

Education opens the door to a different world

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?

"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

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

Hastur

"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

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

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.

Have you been to Carcosa? Have you seen the tall tower from which the Yellow King rules, wrapped in his tattered robes?

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

"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

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

“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

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

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

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

Whatever, king. Hastur's gonna hast.

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

"There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall." H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival