The King in Yellow, and I
A real comedic twist followed by a great dance number.
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!
The audience laughed, cried, and were all heavily sedated. Therapy available for all!!
#LesserKnownBroadwayMusicals
#HashTagGames #Horror #TheKingInYellow #AlternativeHistoryOfTheatre
Friday was session one of scenario one of @pelgranepress Cassilda's Song This is Normal Now playtest.
It's a modern day scenario for @robindlaws The Yellow King RPG, but as the first rule of playtesting is that we don't talk about playtesting you'll have to be content with an image apropos of nothing.
#TheKingInYellow just arrived through the #DeltaGreen #KS . Annotated with the incision and depth of a scalpel-cut by Kenneth Hite, sold out in print long ago and has been available only in PDF. A paperback edition, with Sam Araya's beautiful color plates interspersed among the pages. An intro from #JohnScottTynes founder of #TheUnspeakableOath and under the graphical direction of #DennisDetwiller . #Cthulhu
WHYYYY did no one tell me the first season of True Detective uses Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow" as a plot device? I'm watching it now.
@axios
Or maybe, in some cases, like, a "repairer of reputations"?
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8492/pg8492-images.html#THE_REPAIRER_OF_REPUTATIONS
The King in the Yellow Submarine
- Jules Verne's Cosmic Horror novel begins with the opening lyrics from the mad eldritch musical.
In the town of Carcosa,
where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of haunted submarines
So we sailed on under the Hyades
Till we found the foul sea of green
And we lived forever beneath the waves
Screaming before The King in The Yellow Submarine
#MakeASongScary
#HashtagGames #CosmicHorror #AlternativeHistoryofLiterature #TheKingInYellow
Whatever part I read of #DeltaGreen I just keep fascinated by its interpretation. #TTRPG #CallOfCthulhu #ImpossibleLandscapes #TheKinginYellow
I have an unhealthy obsession with The King In Yellow. The idea that a written work has the power to drive those who read it mad is terrifying. Robert W Chambers work is significant because now, thanks in part to HP Lovecraft, we see iterations of The King In Yellow everywhere. The madness is pervasive, like a force of nature moving slowly across the landscape of our collective consciousness.
