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I really like this book actually, not sure why but I do keep going back to it too. Also there are strong references to it and the sentiments of it in a video ga

I really like this book actually, not sure why but I do keep going back to it too. Also there are strong references to it and the sentiments of it in a video game called Signalis actually. It can be a bit of a hard read though sometimes too I find.

phqb 2y ago
I also knew this book from Signalis which is now one of my favorite. I even made a copy of this book[0] based on the in-game one. [0]: https://x.com/phqb1/status/1840023494060585237 https://x.com/phqb1/status/1840023494060585237
jordanpg 2y ago
There is something about this story, isn't there? Even among Lovecraftian lit, it stands apart. Not exactly a god-like monster, just a presence. Something malignant, whatever it is, wherever it is, that just gets mentioned from time to time. And it's yellow of all colors.
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  I'm confident that the Frenzied Flame / Chaos [0] in the game Elden Ring is loosely based on it, yellow themed, Eye of Yelough, etc. May chaos take the world! [0] https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Frenzied_Flame https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Frenzied_Flame
Cthulhu_ 2y ago
> not sure why but I do keep going back to it too. Well. > "If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it, but as I stooped to pick it up, my eyes became riveted to the open page, and with a cry of terror, or perhaps it was of joy so poignant that I suffered in every nerve, I snatched the thing out of the coals and crept shaking to my bedroom, where I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget 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; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow."
- debo_ 2y ago
  This is one of the best cases of "username checks out" that I've ever seen.
- weatherlight 2y ago
  ...where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask So good, So many question. So many allusions to things that aren't explained but feel whole, but unknowable. They exist, but not for you.
  - water-data-dude 2y ago
    Good author: don’t tell, show. Very good author: don’t show, _suggest_.

phqb 2y ago

I also knew this book from Signalis which is now one of my favorite. I even made a copy of this book[0] based on the in-game one. [0]: https://x.com/phqb1/status/1840023494060585237 https://x.com/phqb1/status/1840023494060585237

jordanpg 2y ago

There is something about this story, isn't there? Even among Lovecraftian lit, it stands apart. Not exactly a god-like monster, just a presence. Something malignant, whatever it is, wherever it is, that just gets mentioned from time to time. And it's yellow of all colors.

Cthulhu_ 2y ago
I'm confident that the Frenzied Flame / Chaos [0] in the game Elden Ring is loosely based on it, yellow themed, Eye of Yelough, etc. May chaos take the world! [0] https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Frenzied_Flame https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Frenzied_Flame

Cthulhu_ 2y ago

> not sure why but I do keep going back to it too. Well. > "If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it, but as I stooped to pick it up, my eyes became riveted to the open page, and with a cry of terror, or perhaps it was of joy so poignant that I suffered in every nerve, I snatched the thing out of the coals and crept shaking to my bedroom, where I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget 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; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow."

debo_ 2y ago
This is one of the best cases of "username checks out" that I've ever seen.
weatherlight 2y ago
...where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask So good, So many question. So many allusions to things that aren't explained but feel whole, but unknowable. They exist, but not for you.
- water-data-dude 2y ago
  Good author: don’t tell, show. Very good author: don’t show, _suggest_.