Can Such Things Still Be? - Complete Literary Guide to the King in Yellow
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Complete Literary Guide to the King in Yellow
This book contains the source works that began with Ambrose Bierce's creation of Hastur and Carcosa, were turned into works of madness-inducing terror by Robert W. Chambers which also introduced the King in Yellow and the Yellow Sign, then all those elements were incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. It also includes the work from another author that Chamber's monstrous royal derived his darker deviation from that of Bierce's more humble beginnings - who could it be?
It does NOT include:
**any of the Derleth disasters
**modern works slipped in to try and trick you into reading new Cthulhu Mythos authors
**Call of Cthulhu roleplaying additions
**altered mythologies from the True Detectives show
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.
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