Not THE KING IN YELLOW? Can't we go see CATS instead?

[dochermes]

Comments

[pronker]

This sounds fascinating. As a writer, he was able to tap into talent to write frothy love stories as well as deeper, darker themes. Kudos!!

mlp

[anonymous]

What little I've read of it sorta intrigued me. It's like mythology; it's very fragmentary, mysterious nature is what makes it compelling. You gotta fill in the blanks yourself and let your imagination get weird. You wonder what actually goes on in dim, lost Carcosa.
Just don't do it while you're driving. Pay attention to the road!

"I'm in fairy rings and tower beds
'Don't report this', three men said
Books by blameless and the dead
King in yellow, queen in red..."
-E.T.I. Blue Oyster Cult

Re: mlp

[dochermes]

Oh, I never caught that reference! Thanks.

[jhall1]

I'm not familiar with the author, but if his story lives up to the quality of those two illustrations - especially the second - then it ought to be good.

[moon_custafer]

I often wonder how TKiY got published and distributed. Did the curse refrain from striking the proofreaders and type setters until the thing was on its way to the bookshops, or were they just immune from years of coming across worse things in the slush pile?

[anonymous]

Oscar Wilde, in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890), mentions a sinister "book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled" that has an unhappy effect o the eponymous pretty-boy (as if he hadn't enough creepiness in his seemingly young life): "It was the strangest book that he had ever read. It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him. Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made real to him."

[moon_custafer]

I'd always heard that book was based on A Rebours, which is.... kind of a hilarious book. I'm pretty sure it's at least partly a satire of decadent aestheticism, but unfortunately Dorian didn't take it that way.