The King In Yellow Archives

Chambers' original work which INJ Culbard is adapting in his new graphic novel The King in Yellow from Selfmade Hero/Abrams which I picked up at San Diego Comic-Con I've been waiting for the book for some time because I am curious about pulp literature, aware from exploring the edges of Lovecraftian lore about The King[...]

The Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. Foxi & OVC3 are back this week for a slightly tipsy review show.  Not quite the Super Drunken Comic Review Show that[...]

The King In Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert Chambers, published in the 19th century, available in the public domain and popularised by the recent TV show True Detective Its influence on HP Lovecraft's work also has seen it appear prominently in the Alan Moore/Jacen Burrows comic Providence. As a result, it has[...]

And, oh yes, The King In Yellow by Robert Chambers, which refers to a play that was meant to inspire madness Some may see that as revenge against True Detective stealing Moore's scene from Top 10 for its finale – but this script was written years before True Detective was filmed Another one for the[...]

Even if you haven't read Robert Chambers' The King In Yellow, it's possible that you may be more recently aware of this nineteeth century collection of short stories, courtesy of the many references made towards it in the TV series True Detective. But if the thought of reading all those words book is just too much for[...]

Chambers' The King in Yellow as a key text to inform its sense of chaos and madness in the Louisiana straits, and similar methods have been adopted in the art direction of Memories of Murder. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTnyhLywdJc[/youtube] You might think I'm bringing up Memories of Murder just to look clever, but it's more than that[...]

Fans of the HBO series True Detective started asking "What is The King In Yellow?" when it was referenced on the show recently Well, the answer is that it's a novel by Robert W (Robert William) Chambers and if you want to read it, you can get it free today for your Kindle. [...]