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The King in Yellow

Index The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. [1]

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An Inhabitant of Carcosa

"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce.

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Arkham Horror

Arkham Horror is an adventure board game designed by Richard Launius, originally published in 1987 by Chaosium.

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Black Projects, White Knights

Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories written by Kage Baker and published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon Press, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which comprises the bulk of her published fiction.

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Blood Fire Death

Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory.

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Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror-fiction writer.

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Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game

Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (formerly the Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game) is an out-of-print card game produced and marketed by Fantasy Flight Games.

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Carcosa

Carcosa is a fictional city in the Ambrose Bierce short story An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886).

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Carcosa Seri Negara

Carcosa Seri Negara is a luxury hotel on two adjacent hills inside the Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur.

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Carl Richard Jacobi

Carl Richard Jacobi (July 10, 1908 – August 25, 1997) was an American journalist and author.

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Chaosium

Chaosium Inc. is one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence.

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Characters of the Cthulhu Mythos

The following characters appear in H.P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Cthulhu Mythos anthology

A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft.

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Cthulhu Mythos cults

A number of fictional cults appear in the Cthulhu Mythos, the loosely connected series of horror stories written by H.P Lovecraft and other writers inspired by his creations.

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Cthulhu Mythos deities

H. P. Lovecraft created a number of deities throughout the course of his literary career, including the "Great Old Ones" and aliens, such as the "Elder Things", with sporadic references to other miscellaneous deities (e.g. Nodens) whereas the "Outer Gods" are a later creation of other prolific writers such as August Derleth, who was credited with formalizing the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos

The following tables and lists feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.

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Eschaton (album)

Eschaton is the third album by British black metal band Anaal Nathrakh.

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Fictional book

A fictional book is a book (created specifically for a work of fiction) that sometimes provides the basis of the plot of a story, a common thread in a series of books, or the works of a particular writer or canon of work.

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Fungi from Yuggoth

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II

Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by American writer Lin Carter.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Hastur

Hastur (The Unspeakable One, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Historical fantasy

Historical fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into the narrative.

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History of the Necronomicon

"History of the Necronomicon" is a short text written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938.

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I, Cthulhu

"I, Cthulhu" is a short humorous story by fantasy author Neil Gaiman featuring H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu who is dictating an autobiography to a human slave, Whateley.

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In the Court of the Dragon

"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

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John Edgar Browning

John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar recognized internationally for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture.

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Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

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List of Ace SF letter-series single titles

Ace Books have published hundreds of science fiction titles, starting in 1953.

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List of Ace single volumes

Ace Books began publishing genre fiction in 1952.

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List of Ace titles in M series

Ace Books published its M series of books from 1964 to 1966, at a price of 45 cents.

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List of fantasy authors

This is a list of fantasy authors, authors known for writing works of fantasy, fantasy literature, or related genres of magic realism, horror fiction, science fantasy.

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List of fantasy novels (I–R)

This page lists notable fantasy novels (and novel series).

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List of fictional books

A fictional book is a non-existent book created specifically for (i.e. within) a work of fiction.

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List of fictional plays

This is a list of fictional plays, not including musicals.

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List of fictional universes in literature

This is a list of fictional universes in literature.

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List of gothic fiction works

Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romanticism.

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Memetic engineering

Memetic engineering is a term developed by Leveious Rolando, John Sokol, and Gibron Burchett based on Richard Dawkins' theory of memes.

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Necronomicon

The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.

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Percival Pollard

Joseph Percival Pollard (January 29, 1869 - December 17, 1911) was an American literary critic, novelist and short story writer.

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Queen of Demons

Queen of Demons (1998) is a fantasy novel by American writer David Drake, part of the series Lord of the Isles.

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Robert W. Chambers

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.

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Rust Cohle

Rustin Spencer "Rust" Cohle is a fictional character in the first season of the anthology crime drama television series True Detective on HBO.

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Servant of the Dragon

Servant of the Dragon (1999) is a fantasy novel in the series, Lord of the Isles by author David Drake.

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Siege of Paris (1870–71)

The Siege of Paris, lasting from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871, and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces, led to French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire as well as the Paris Commune.

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Tales of the Shadowmen

Tales of the Shadowmen is an American annual anthology of short stories edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, published by.

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Tähtifantasia Award

Tähtifantasia Award is an annual prize by Helsingin science fiction seura ry for the best foreign fantasy book released in Finland.

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The Demoiselle d'Ys

"The Demoiselle d'Ys" is a ghost story by American writer Robert W. Chambers, published in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

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The Emberverse series

The Emberverse series, or Change World, is a series of post-apocalyptic alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling.

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The Funniest Joke in the World

"The Funniest Joke in the World" is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

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The Haunts of Men

The Haunts of Men is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, author of The King In Yellow (1895) and The Maker of Moons (1896).

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The House of the Toad

The House of the Toad is a Cthulhu Mythos horror novel by author Richard L. Tierney.

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The Laundry Files

The Laundry Files is a series of novels by Charles Stross.

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The Maker of Moons

The Maker of Moons is an 1896 short story collection by Robert W. Chambers which followed the publication of Chambers' most famous work, The King in Yellow (1895).

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The Masque of the Red Death in popular culture

Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story "The Masque of the Red Death" has appeared many times in popular culture.

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The Prophets' Paradise

The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

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The Repairer of Reputations

"The Repairer of Reputations" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

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The Spawn of Cthulhu

The Spawn of Cthulhu is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter.

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The Temple in the Underworld

The Temple in the Underworld is the third studio album by Czech black metal band Root, released on December 1992 through Monitor.

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The Tree of Heaven

The Tree of Heaven is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, author of The King in Yellow, The Maker of Moons, and The Mystery of Choice.

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The Whisperer in Darkness

The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Tower of Latria

Tower of Latria is a fictional level in the action role-playing game Demon's Souls.

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True Detective (season 1)

The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO.

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Unhealthy Opera

Unhealthy Opera is the fourth full-length studio album by the French death metal band Yyrkoon.

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Yellow King

Yellow King can refer to.

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Yellow Sign

The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories The King in Yellow (1895).

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Yig

Yig (the Father of Serpents) is a deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythosThe Curse of Yig by H.P. Lovecraft.

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1895 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1895.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

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