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The King in Yellow
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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.Due to the publishing date, it's in the public domain in most countries and readable online.H. P. Lovecraft cited this book as an influence, and it's the direct source of Hastur's namenote Chambers himself got it from a short story by Ambrose Bierce, "Haïta the Shepherd", in which it's just a shepherd's god. 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 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 press. A particularly notable version was written by James Blish for the story "More Light". In addition, the stories are the basis for The Yellow King Tabletop RPG by Robin Laws.You might be looking for the Raymond Chandler short story of the same name (in which the lead refers to this book), or for the Dead Milkmen album of the same name. Also don't confuse with Yul Brynner, the King in Yellowface—though the real Thai monarchy, including Brynner's Historical Domain Character King Mongkut, is associated with the color yellow. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_149f7447 | type |
Rescue Romance | |
| The King in Yellow / int_149f7447 | comment |
Rescue Romance: Philip falls madly in love with Jeanne after she rescues him lost on the moors. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_1869b4b1 | type |
Unreliable Narrator | |
| The King in Yellow / int_1869b4b1 | comment |
Unreliable Narrator: We don't even know if the Crapsaccharine World is real or not; the tales featuring the King in Yellow play are interconnected, but this is the only one which explicitly depicts such a world. The unreliability of Hildred is first touched upon when his cousin Louis outs his diadem in a safe for what it truly is: a brass costume crown in a biscuit tin. | |
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Dead All Along | |
| The King in Yellow / int_1b590025 | comment |
Dead All Along: The hearse-driver is revealed to have died months prior. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_1d029135 | type |
Fictional Document | |
| The King in Yellow / int_1d029135 | comment |
Fictional Document: While referenced and quoted, the entire text of The King in Yellow is never set out. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_1d8fc71f | type |
Deadly Book | |
| The King in Yellow / int_1d8fc71f | comment |
Deadly Book: The eponymous play, supposedly published in 1889, drove the author to suicide, and all who read it to suffer a tragic fate, or go mad from irresistible revelations. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_24321e44 | type |
Only Sane Man | |
| The King in Yellow / int_24321e44 | comment |
Only Sane Man: Two characters, Louis Castaigne and Constance, seem to be wholly normal and free of the sinister power of ''The King In Yellow''. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_2439b588 | type |
As the Good Book Says... | |
| The King in Yellow / int_2439b588 | comment |
As the Good Book Says...: The story ends with a quote from Hebrews 10:31: "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_251bbe0e | type |
Genre Blindness | |
| The King in Yellow / int_251bbe0e | comment |
Genre Blindness: In many of the stories, somebody picks up a copy of The King In Yellow and reads it, even though they should know, both from the genre and from in-universe sources, that the book is horrific and should never be read, no matter how artistic it is. Despite this, everyone keeps a copy on their shelf where anybody can read it and go insane. One character even mentions seeing it in bookstores... The main character of "The Yellow Sign", however, is both shocked and bewildered to see his girlfriend pull out the book out of his shelves; while he desperately and repeatedly tells her to put it down and not to open it, he's also wondering how the hell the book managed to end up in his apartment in the first place, as he is well aware how dangerous it is. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| The King in Yellow / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: There's a lot of untranslated French. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_2aff6a25 | type |
Death of the Hypotenuse | |
| The King in Yellow / int_2aff6a25 | comment |
Death of the Hypotenuse: With Genevieve's revival at the end of the story, Boris's suicide seems to be this, as she and Alec are free to be together. The real question is, can they get past their shared trauma and guilt? | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_352a1d70 | type |
All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists | |
| The King in Yellow / int_352a1d70 | comment |
All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: Taken to a rather odd extreme when it turns out that the narrator of The Yellow Sign has been fatally wounded and is writing his account as he is dying. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_361a1d26 | type |
Anguished Declaration of Love | |
| The King in Yellow / int_361a1d26 | comment |
Anguished Declaration of Love: Tessie confesses her love for the narrator in such a fashion. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_37ddb0bf | type |
Not a Mask | |
| The King in Yellow / int_37ddb0bf | comment |
Not a Mask: Played straight. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_3b5fcbb7 | type |
Artifact of Doom | |
| The King in Yellow / int_3b5fcbb7 | comment |
Artifact of Doom: Any copy of the play The King in Yellow. The subject matter of the play isn't entirely revealed, other than that it's set in "the lost city of Carcosa", perceived to be very artistically written, though the first act is tame and the second act drops hard. Reading the play will either lead to madness or a dark fate. The King in Yellow himself is never seen, nor shown whether or not he actually exists, though he appears to be a Humanoid Abomination that embodies decadence. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_3b79029a | type |
Crapsaccharine World | |
| The King in Yellow / int_3b79029a | comment |
We don't even know if the Crapsaccharine World is real or not; the tales featuring the King in Yellow play are interconnected, but this is the only one which explicitly depicts such a world. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| The King in Yellow / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Mr. Scott's love affair with Sylvia ended with him concealing an unnamed secret within the forests of Brittany. Most portions of the play itself. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_420081bf | type |
Alien Sky | |
| The King in Yellow / int_420081bf | comment |
Alien Sky: Carcosa—black stars, twin suns, you name it. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_45390a1e | type |
Pre-Insanity Reveal | |
| The King in Yellow / int_45390a1e | comment |
Pre-Insanity Reveal: Hildred Castaigne was a fairly normal, cheerful gentleman-about-town before a fall from a horse caused some sort of brain damage, resulting in his madness. (Or, in his own view, he was a shiftless layabout before his accident led to him gaining his newfound focus.) | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_4e03e262 | type |
Wax Museum Morgue | |
| The King in Yellow / int_4e03e262 | comment |
Wax Museum Morgue: It begins innocently enough with turning flowers into marble... and then goldfish... and then a rabbit... and then, quite by accident, a woman. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_586db75d | type |
My Girl Is Not a Slut | |
| The King in Yellow / int_586db75d | comment |
My Girl Is Not a Slut: Tessie Reardon is a nude model, but despite that virginal, and rather obviously saving herself for Mr. Scott. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
| The King in Yellow / int_58e43f17 | comment |
Cats Are Mean: The title character not only almost lives in fear of his, but also seems to enjoy it. It may have just realized its owner was a psychopath. | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
| The King in Yellow / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: The narrator is definitely not stable. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| The King in Yellow / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: The eponymous fictional play. Don't read it! Also the Yellow Sign, which seems to leave the viewer susceptible to some kind of mind control if they've already read The King in Yellow. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
| The King in Yellow / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: The evil scheme is foiled by the title character getting his throat torn out by his own Right-Hand Cat. Then again, since most people involved were insane, the plan might not have worked anyway. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_6b5a92dc | type |
Uncanny Valley | |
| The King in Yellow / int_6b5a92dc | comment |
Uncanny Valley: Invoked. The pale hearse-driver in "The Yellow Sign" is constantly described in eerie terms as seeming unnaturally soft and puffy, and people often reacts to his presence with revulsion or fear. For good reason. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| The King in Yellow / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: When Boris find that Genevieve has been turned to stone, he shoots himself. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_72d31973 | type |
Surreal Horror | |
| The King in Yellow / int_72d31973 | comment |
Surreal Horror: Nothing about the horrific weirdness is explained. Ever. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
| The King in Yellow / int_851dda8f | comment |
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 play named after him. Book covers (and many depictions, before and after the internet arrived) generally depict him as a humanish being wearing bright yellow robes. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| The King in Yellow / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Animal lovers will be pleased to note that the bunny and the goldfish are restored to life and the fish are immediately re-homed. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_88c6e936 | type |
Masquerade Ball | |
| The King in Yellow / int_88c6e936 | comment |
Masquerade Ball: "The Mask": Implied to occur in the play. "I wear no mask." | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| The King in Yellow / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Hildred Castaigne is, essentially, a mad wannabe supervillain, whose Evil Plan is to spark a Second American Civil War which will end with him as Emperor of the United States — his ultimate goal being to Take Over the World as a minion of The King In Yellow. In-story he kills at least one man, drives another to suicide, and tries to kill two other people, before the police capture him. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_91d3ab1e | type |
Ominous Pipe Organ | |
| The King in Yellow / int_91d3ab1e | comment |
Ominous Pipe Organ: The narrator notes that the church organ that plays during the sermon sounds off in some way, evil and hateful as it is described while none of the other people in the church seem to notice. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_93f27743 | type |
Metafictional Title | |
| The King in Yellow / int_93f27743 | comment |
Metafictional Title: The King in Yellow, the book, is named after The King in Yellow, the play. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
| The King in Yellow / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: When Louis refuses Hildred's demand to jilt Constance and go into exile, Hildred decides to murder both of them. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| The King in Yellow / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: The lost city of Carcosa, "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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| The King in Yellow / int_9c5e78d0 | type |
Kill the Cutie | |
| The King in Yellow / int_9c5e78d0 | comment |
Kill the Cutie: Tessie, who is the nicest and most innocent character in the tale, is the first to die. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
| The King in Yellow / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: At the end, the narrator finds out that the castle he stayed in was a ruin and the girl had been dead for five hundred years. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| The King in Yellow / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Most of the story is a rather innocent and sweet love story about the growing affection between Scott and Tessie, with sinister going-ons in the background. And then it switches to full-blown Cosmic Horror. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_a95fc331 | type |
Mad God | |
| The King in Yellow / int_a95fc331 | comment |
Mad God: The King in Yellow him/her/itself, or as an inversion by making everyone crazy via the play. | |
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Or Was It a Dream? | |
| The King in Yellow / int_ac36578e | comment |
Or Was It a Dream?: While most of the story is implied to be a dream, the ending casts doubt on whether the narrator is still dreaming or if he really has ended up in Carcosa before the Yellow King. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| The King in Yellow / int_ad1db87c | comment |
The main character of "The Yellow Sign", however, is both shocked and bewildered to see his girlfriend pull out the book out of his shelves; while he desperately and repeatedly tells her to put it down and not to open it, he's also wondering how the hell the book managed to end up in his apartment in the first place, as he is well aware how dangerous it is. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_b4c406a6 | type |
Death by Despair | |
| The King in Yellow / int_b4c406a6 | comment |
Death by Despair: Jeanne's grave notes that she died in longing for her lost love. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| The King in Yellow / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In the USA of 1920 "bigotry and intolerance were laid in their graves and kindness and charity began to draw warring sects together" ... but only after "the exclusion of foreign-born Jews as a measure of national self-preservation, [and] the settlement of the new independent negro state of Suanee", which the narrator considers equally positive. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
| The King in Yellow / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Boris and Alec both love Genevieve. She confessed she loved Boris more and married him, though she reveals during her fever that she has realized she loves Alec more and wishes she had chosen him. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| The King in Yellow / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: "In the Court of the Dragon"; "The Prophets' Paradise"; "The Repairer of Reputations"; even the opening poem. Let's just say that of all the authors whose work is regarded as belonging to the "weird tales" genre, most aren't half as weird as Chambers. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The King in Yellow / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Chambers took the enigmatic names Hastur and Carcosa from two of Ambrose Bierce's short stories. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_ca95473c | type |
Series Continuity Error | |
| The King in Yellow / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Chambers would freely change major details between stories. Hastur is variously a city, a planet, a person, or a god. In-universe, several editions of the play exist, and it's implied that no two performances are the same. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| The King in Yellow / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Hildred's clearly an Unreliable Narrator at best, but seems to accurately describe what others say, at least... making Mr. Wilde's collaboration with Hildred either a cruel manipulation from the Repairer of Reputations, or a shared madness that might have some truth to it. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
| The King in Yellow / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
The exact fates of most people in the play are unrevealed, though heavily implied to be awful. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_d08049db | type |
Taken for Granite | |
| The King in Yellow / int_d08049db | comment |
Taken for Granite: Boris's compound turns any living entity immersed in it into marble. He is starting to experiment with animals...and then his wife falls into the pool of solution. By the end we find out that, while it takes years, it eventually wears off. | |
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Bad People Abuse Animals | |
| The King in Yellow / int_d2102da0 | comment |
Bad People Abuse Animals: The Repairer has a cat he constantly taunts and mistreats to laugh at when it lashes out at him violently. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
| The King in Yellow / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: People keep reading The King in Yellow even if they've been informed doing so is a bad idea. There's a subtle implication that the play exerts some sort of One Ring-style influence on people to get itself read. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_da8c447e | type |
Unobtainium | |
| The King in Yellow / int_da8c447e | comment |
Unobtainium: "The Mask": A newly discovered element tentatively placed in the Incredibly Awesome group. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
| The King in Yellow / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: After his harrowing flight from the organist, the narrator wakes up back in the church pew, with his neighbors glaring at him for dozing off during the sermon. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_edb6dd67 | type |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future | |
| The King in Yellow / int_edb6dd67 | comment |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: "Government Lethal Chambers" are introduced so that any citizen who desires it can end their lives. Or at least so we're told. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_f05444a4 | type |
Once per Episode | |
| The King in Yellow / int_f05444a4 | comment |
In many of the stories, somebody picks up a copy of The King In Yellow and reads it, even though they should know, both from the genre and from in-universe sources, that the book is horrific and should never be read, no matter how artistic it is. Despite this, everyone keeps a copy on their shelf where anybody can read it and go insane. One character even mentions seeing it in bookstores... | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_f32d85ab | type |
20 Minutes into the Future | |
| The King in Yellow / int_f32d85ab | comment |
20 Minutes into the Future: Chambers' "utopian", reformed United States in the far-off year of our Lord... 1920. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_f6624c30 | type |
Together in Death | |
| The King in Yellow / int_f6624c30 | comment |
Together in Death: At the end, Philip feels his foot numbed, suggesting that he has been fatally bitten. He will be reunited with his beloved Jeanne very soon. | |
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| The King in Yellow / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| The King in Yellow / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: The Yellow King may personify decadence itself. That's what the colour yellow means (see the yellow book in The Picture of Dorian Gray). | |
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