The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition (Softcover)

Some books are dangerous simply because they exist. The play The King in Yellow is one of them - read the second act, and your mind unravels. You will never read the play itself. But its shadow falls across every story Robert W. Chambers built around it.

This annotated edition gathers the full cycle, from "The Repairer of Reputations" to "The Yellow Sign". Here is the origin of Carcosa, Hastur and Cassilda - names that would go on to colour all of cosmic horror, from Lovecraft to the modern gaming table. Artist Samuel Araya gives the stories full-page paintings and unsettling sketches. Kenneth Hite annotates every tale, opening up its obscure references, and closes with appendices on Chambers, the play itself and Ambrose Bierce. John Scott Tynes provides the foreword.

264 pages, softcover, black and white. Not a rulebook, but the wellspring countless horror campaigns draw from. For anyone who wants to know where the Yellow Sign came from - and who dares to look past the first act.