The King in Yellow - Stories Explained

Thumbnail/Chapter Bumper Art: https://www.youtube.com/@nicki0kaye https://www.patreon.com/nicki0kaye Book used: Fantastically annotated by Kenneth Hite https://shop.arcdream.com/products/the-king-in-yellow-annotated-edition-paperback https://www.amazon.com/King-Yellow-Annotated-Softcover/dp/B0CQTM9VV6 Free Online Book https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492 In this bite sized prelude to the Signalis video we do a thorough comb through of the 1890s Anthology, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. This book is a masterful synthesis between the utter mundanity that is shopgirl romance and the high weirdness that is horror. This certainly isn’t the analysis to end all analysis, in fact I want this video to launch a newfound love for this book, and inspire many of you to dig into this yourselves and come up with your own interesting theories. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introducing the Book 00:06:38 Cassilda's Song (Skip Intro) 00:12:27 Repairer of Reputations 01:35:26 The Mask 02:26:35 In The Court of the Dragon 02:50:43 The Yellow Sign 03:42:03 Final Thoughts on Ch. 1-4 03:53:50 The Demoiselle D'Ys 04:41:29 The Prophet's Paradise 05:16:00 The Street of the Four Winds 05:30:28 The Street of the First Shell 06:38:00 The Street of Our Lady of the Fields 07:56:26 Rue Barre 08:40:05 Fan Art Shoutouts 08:42:35 Final Thoughts on Ch. 7-10 08:50:08 Final Thoughts on the Play 08:54:47 Final Thoughts on the Book Support(No Pressure): patreon.com/FlawPeacock Sites used: There was a reddit post where I read the term “shopgirl” romance, describing the last four chapters, but I can’t seem to find it, when I do I’ll put it here. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/246/246-h/246-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492 Megalovania MIDI used https://onlinesequencer.net/256345# Asgore MIDI used https://onlinesequencer.net/570536# Examples of more Lovecraftian depictions of Hastur. https://pulpuniversity.com/hastur/ https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-king-in-yellow-9781464213717 https://kinginyellow.fandom.com/wiki/Hastur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_of_opposites https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8168/8168-h/8168-h.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Juan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/mobo9m/have_youseen_the_yellow_sign/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/comments/xe3big/the_hidden_hallway_behind_the_shops_at_my_local/ https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/qe04fb/a_parisian_restaurant_menu_during_the_siege_of/?rdt=65114 Court of The Dragon street charting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_de_Rivoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_Saint-Honor%C3%A9 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_Dragon#/media/Fichier:La_cour_du_Dragon_(Paris_VIe)_par_Eug%C3%A8ne_Atget_(1913).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_la_Concorde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_Boulogne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cours-la-Reine