RWC - Robert W. Chambers
Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him, had changed him for every other eye but mine. And now I heard his voice, rising, swelling, thundering through the flaring light, and as I fell, the radiance increasing, increasing, poured over me in waves of flame. Then I sank into the depths, and I heard the King in Yellow whispering to my soul: "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!"
-From "In the Court of the Dragon"
The stories in Robert W. Chambers' 1895 book The King in Yellow contributed a number of names and images that were later picked up by Lovecraft and his discriples. The impact of these ideas on the Mythos was traced in the anthology The Hastur Cycle, edited by Robert M. Price (Chaosium, 1993). Personally, I prefer to think of these stories, and the others most closely related to them, as the "Carcosa Mythos," which could be thought of as an independent literary genre that overlaps the Cthulhu Mythos in places.
For further information about Robert W. Chambers and his mythology, refer to Henrik Johnsson's site at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5582/chambers.html.
For the most part, I have indexed only those terms relating to the mythological background of the stories.
RWC Cassilda - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song (poem), in The King in Yellow, Ace
Books, no date (Copyright page states "Cover art by Stephen Hickman").
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Carcosa; Cassilda; Hyades; King in Yellow, The; King in Yellow, The;
RWC Court - Robert W. Chambers, In the Court of the Dragon, in The King in Yellow.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Black Stars; Carcosa; Hali, Lake of; King in Yellow, The; King in Yellow, The;
RWC Demoiselle - Robert W. Chambers, The Demoiselle D'Ys, in The King in Yellow.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Hastur;
RWC Mask - Robert W. Chambers, The Mask, in The King in Yellow.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Alar; Aldebaran; Alec; Camilla; Carcosa; Cassilda; Hastur; Hyades; King in Yellow, The; King in Yellow, The; Pallid Mask; Stranger; tattered mantle;
RWC Repairer - Robert W. Chambers, The Repairer of Reputations, in The King in Yellow.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Aldebaran; Aldones; Black Stars; Camilla; Carcosa; Cassilda; Castaigne, Hildred; Demhe; France; Hali, Lake of; Hastur; Hyades; Imperial Dynasty of America; King, The; King in Yellow, The; King in Yellow, The; Last King; London; Naotalba; Pallid Mask; Paris; Phantom of Truth; silken robe; Thale; Uoht; Yellow Sign; Yhtill;
RWC Yellow - Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign, in The King in Yellow.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
(Also available in Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign and Other Stories, Chaosium, Inc., 2000.)
References: Cassilda; Castaigne, Hildred; Hali, Lake of; Hastur; Hyades; King in Yellow, The; King in Yellow, The; Pallid Mask; Phantom of Truth; tattered mantle; Yellow Sign;
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