The Cthulhu Mythos of H.P Lovecraft was inspired by numerous writers and expanded by numerous collaborators in his lifetime. Admired by H.P Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers contributed the earliest elements of the mythos surrounding the Yellow King, the madness inducing play “the King in Yellow”, and the eldritch city of Carcosa.
Robert W. Chambers
(1895)
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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
Cassilda’s Song in “The King in Yellow,” Act i, Scene 2.
