Lovecraft was a part of a circle of authors who shared their works and fictional worlds with each other (literally known as the Lovecraft Circle). That’s why so much of the Cthulhu Mythos is written by other people.
@@chasethemaster3440 Yeah, Robert E. Howard (author of Conan) and Lovecraft were pen-pals. A collection of their letters was even published under the title A Means to Freedom.
So The Mask's excerpt from the King In Yellow play is a reference to the 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allen Poe, wherein a stranger wearing a strange red mask attends a masquerade ball being held by a gathering of pompous nobles amidst a virulent plague called the Red Death. The host, offended by the color of the mask and how it makes them and the other nobles uncomfortable considering the events surrounding the festivities, demands that the strager remove their mask and reveal themselves. The stranger reveals that they aren't wearing a mask, much to their horror, and come the morning all the nobles are dead. The implication is that the Stranger is actually the specter of Death Itself, able to appear to the nobles as they are all already infected by the Red Death and thus doomed to a horrible painful death that no one will know about until someone visits the manor and knocks down the locked doors the nobles had used to try and shut out the outside world and the plight of their fellow man, only to find their diseased corpses. However, another interpretation is that the stranger is someone with the Red Death who managed to slip in to the masquerade ball, and their face was so horrible that everyone thought it was just a mask, and they do not realize this until they have locked themselves in with the man and mingled with him, infecting all of them and consigning themselves to a horrible fate. The horror of the Masque of the Red Death, and by extension the short excerpt from the King In Yellow, is encountering something that wears the shape of a person, like Death or the thing that is called the King In Yellow, only to discover that it is in fact something much more horrible and inevitable, and that it may very well be something you have brought upon yourself through your own actions. With the King In Yellow, there is an underlying theme, not of the inherent power of words and language, but the perception of madness from the person afflicted. Take a moment to ponder whether any of the characters in this story are reliable narrators, and whether or not things have played out as they, and by extension the author and Tale Foundry, has described. In 'The Repairer of Reputations', the main character suffers from a delusional madness, and at the end he suffers a moment of clarity, wailing about how the crown of the King In Yellow has passed to his cousin. As we do not have the full context of the play of the King In Yellow, we are left to ponder if this moment of clarity is a realization that the curse of the King In Yellow has actually passed to someone else, or that they have reenacted something from the play and believe now the crown has passed either to their living or dead relative. The Mask tells two stories. The excerpt tells part of the story of the play, with the aforementioned reference to the Masque of the Red Death implying that the stranger is some foreboding presence akin to Death Itself, while the short story tells of a man who has hidden away his true self to conform to the expectations of others, and he now believes he is truly living the lie, but in doing so he winds up getting everything he's ever wanted. While on the surface there's a heartwarming tale of self-sacrifice and perseverance being karmincally rewarded with true love and prosperity, even amidst tragedy, there is something that the audience must remember; the main character of The Mask has been lying since the beginning, and the excerpt from the play specifically addresses the perception of falsehoods versus reality through the masks. So, when they talk about how the love of their life miraculously survived a fatal accident after her husband killed himself in grief and left everything to the main character, we are left to ask the question: Did that actually happen? Perhaps, and maybe the tale is tragic but wholesome, but perhaps the husband didn't kill himself and it was all a conspiracy between two lovers to steal his fortune. Or, perhaps none of this happened, and the man wearing the mask has become so deluded he thinks he's gotten everything he ever wanted, when the reality of the matter could be far more bleak and grim. In The Court of the Dragon, the main character goes to seek comfort in a familiar church after reading the play of the King In Yellow has shaken his faith, but as the pastor delivers a sermon about how nothing can harm the soul, he finds no comfort in the words, and is instead brought to revulsion by the hateful countenance of the organist, and believes the organist is out to get him and equating the organist with Death Itself. In the end, he is dragged away by the organist and finds himself in Carcosa, being comforted by the King In Yellow. Taken at face value, this is a strange case of the man being whisked away to another world by something he was initially afraid of and finding comfort in a strange alien being, but there's an issue. Why would the organist be the thing that drags him to Carcosa, and why would the man find peace in the King In Yellow that had previously shaken his faith? Well, we now tread down the matter of open interpretation of metaphor and symbolism, but let us assume that the organist represents something; something so traumatic that the man cannot find peace in his faith in God, as the organist's presence undermines that faith and makes it feel empty and disgusting, and it is only when the organist catches up to them and drags them to Carcosa that he meets the King In Yellow and finds peace. My interpretation there is that the organist represents a guilt or trauma that runs so deep that the man cannot believe it has not damaged his soul and his standing with God, and it is only through being dragged kicking and screaming to admit what has happened that he finds Carcosa and the King In Yellow, and through him finds peace. The last story, The Yellow Sign, talks about how the main character refuses to read the King In Yellow for fear of what it could do to him, and he is haunted by the specter of a corpse-like man that, as the man's wife introduces him to the Yellow Sign and they learn of the King In Yellow, burst into their lives after years of tormenting the man and ruining his creative spirit, condemning the man to an asylum as his wife is taken away from him, and the authorities are left discussing how the corpse had been dead for years. If you've read this far, you might have already pieced together what I'm about to say, but here's my interpretation. The main character across all these stories is actually the same person, and we are hearing a distorted retelling of the events of their life, either as told by them or reimagined by various storytellers. The man in question is a deranged murderer that has lost his wife after his crimes were discovered and he's been dragged away to an insane asylum. The organist and the corpse-like man is the specter of the man he murdered, haunting him, and throughout each story he has told lies to either paint himself as a tragic victim or hide from his own guilt. What the original story actually was is impossible to say, but Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and the King In Yellow, as in both the play and the entity itself, are all a metaphor for this unnamed madman trying to contend with his perception of God, religion, and the state of his own soul. My reading is that in the end, whatever this man did, in the end he managed to find his faith in God and found peace with himself, believing he was forgiven for the things he had done, even if it's all a delusion and he's still locked in asylum somewhere instead of finding himself beside his God in the Kingdom of Heaven; the King In Yellow in Carcosa In that vein, the King In Yellow is a metaphor for the peculiar state of madness, and the author likens religion in all its forms to be a peculiar form of madness that can drive people insane or compel them to commit terrible acts, but can also grant them peace of mind and fulfillment, and ultimately the supposed delusion of religion may indeed be true if there is indeed a King In Yellow out there somewhere, but all the same it will often seem as nothing more than fanciful literature or the deranged ramblings of fanatical madmen to those that do not already believe in it. Of course, that's just my take on it as someone who's just read the cliff notes of the King In Yellow, so I'm probably putting way too much stock in this.
if you wanna a really king of yellow but slightly different but a real effect is a game called signalis you have to consumed it by any means either play it or watch the flood of reviews and documents there is one by bricky i have an agenda to spread the holy word of the greatness of this game . plz Nux PLZ
Just in case Nux sees this I'd like to offer an interpretation on Carcosa with the themes in the video: Carcosa could represent the idea of being creatively lost. A place where the light you need to see loses more and more of itself to lengthening shadows and you're powerless to stop it. A place of weird things you could never understand and when you try and put your soul out there, your very voice, the truest expression of you, nothing around is even capable of understanding. So it dies
The King in Yellow theme, and Carcosa, is about... Unravelling (There is that power in words) The play unravels you. Your grip on self, your grip on relationships, your grip on belief. The whole world, as the play spreads. Carcosa is where the unravelled husks go, to fade into oblivion. In short its the dark fall into Dementia. And how it ruins lives. The horror is how that dementia is a force applied, a tool, of a dark, living god. The movie Annihilation, I believe, taps strongly into the King in Yellow. Same flavor of eldritch horror.
Their other video called “Who is the king in yellow” goes a lot more into the weeds on what the King really is, and clears up a lot of the existential questions.
Hastur is the Lovecraftian version of the King in Yellow, which is Robert Chambers' creation, even before HP which is wild. Robert Chambers' works are insanely good.
@howardhavardramberg7160 I read the King In Yellow a few years ago. It was VERY interesting, even if a lot of the later stories aren't even really horror. It was written in 1895 but it takes place in a speculative future of the 1920s.
Bruh, Nyarlathotep is the Pharoah in Red Literally a different color and a different title. How do you confuse them? (It’s obscure, and usually he’s a big crawling chaotic tentacle thing, but there are passages saying he a appeared as a pharaoh)
The HBO show True Detective mentions king in yellow and carcosa in first season. I went down a deep rabbit hole after realizing that. It was not worth it. It'll haunt you.
Yea the hanged king is basically the scp version of the king in yellow. And one hanged king related scp is literally carcosa/ the means of traveling to carcosa.
Words can be powerful. Especially when written to make you invested in what's being said. I believe one of the best things to live in this world, is discovering stories. Both old and new, the books, music, and video, to the truth and fiction. There's so much to see and hear that can change you, and that will stay with you till your dying day. And I think that's truly amazing.
Yo Nux, since you are reacting to this guy, I would reccommend u watch his video on "the ocean at the end of the lane" its pretty good and it even got a theatrical production.
What if: What if human imagination wasn't always just that but the memory/energy of beings and happenings that have long since passed simply passing through the Aether? If Memories are factual Energy then they end up going somewhere when their container finally ceases to contain.
Hey Nux, I love your videos. Though at the end of the tale foundry video it wasn't Patreon, it was the Nebula Streaming service. Love your philosophy videos and can't wait to see what you pick up that others missed.
You should react to the Hanged King SCP lore. It's basically the King in Yellow but as an SCP and it is my absolute favorite. Edit to add my recommendation for the video by "The Exploring Series" on TH-cam that compiles the most relevant Hanged King stories and tales together in a great way.
I mean if you want to connect it to the imperium of man, the Emperor uses a lot of gold in his motifs, and gold is a type of yellow hue; ergo The Man-Emperor of Man is The King in Yellow
Funnily enough, the King In Yellow has also been adapted into 40K directly by name. Though it's not anything related to the original or Lovecraft interpretations.
My favorite tale involving The King in Yellow is about Old Man Henderson, a man who battles the cult of The King in Yellow and ultimately the Elder God itself because Henderson thinks they stole his lawn gnomes and he wants them back.
I 1st learned about the _The King in Yellow_ from _MLP abridges,_ then _SCP._ Honestly, I recommend both to Nux. The city of Alagadda and everything related to it is a fascinating facet of the SCP universes, especially as to how it relates to some early SCP (Please don't do the infographic animation rewrite videos, they just change/remove so much). And just the concept that, of the eldritch beings trying to collect payment from Twi, without her knowing about her other persona's deal with them. Thrakazod!
so as i hear this lore dive. i get the feeling. the the movie Heavy Metal was inspired by this story because both basically preview several short stories only vaguely connected by one entity and nothing else other then madness or chaos.
7:07 it at it's most powerful in your childhoods cause it's the first things you ever see. How else did I decide to make my brand new profile picture based off of Sonic and Mater Chief as a combined character? Exactly. Mega Collection Plus made made me feel a way that I miss dearly. I guess I've always love things that are bigger than me, but that's not the case anymore. Comprehending how it's all made is the first step in losing those cool childhood emotions.
Nux, I think you'd _love_ "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a book about the memoirs of a blind man that's writing about a legendary documentary that doesn't exist. The documentary is centered around a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. I read it back in 2005, about a year before I graduated from high school. It's an absolutely insane book and the author has gone on record as saying that a good half of the entire project was dedicated to fucking with the reader xD
There’s a being in the scp universe very similar and likely highly inspired by The King in Yellow. The being is called The Hanged King and it manifests though a play called The hanged kings tragity (scp-701). You’ll also want to look at the city of Alagadda (scp-2264) over which The Hanged King its ambassador and four lords; the white lord, the yellow lord, the red lord, and the black lord. The ambassador is described as being incredibly powerful and the hanged king himself has only been witnessed by one person that has survived to tell the tale, that person describes the Hanged King as “a god-shaped hole in reality”
I had this vision of you in a Meat Canyon animation just trying to survive and you were full meta and nothing could stop your power as (a) god of cancelled. That is so para social. I was just trying to sleep.
_An author places some of themselves in a book._ _But the reader withdraws something of their own perception as well._ _I wondered what I might see in the book._ _A child believes a lie because they know no better._ _A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience._ _In this way, a child's story could be so many different experiences._ _With enough subtext, a thing made for a child becomes an entirely different world to an adult._ _A shame you didn't finish reading._ _Oh! uhh, A bird in the hoof is always looks twice before crossing the street!_ _Quite._ _I'll be borrowing Spike for a better re-education about how he should handle locks he can't access without force._ _Keep an open mind Twilight._ _There's no telling when subtext will defeat the facade of a thing._
5:17 I remember watching a video where Destiny was debating Sneako and Destiny said "Doing something just someone told you not to just makes you a sheep of the other herd"
Tale foundry got me to pick up the book. It really is a strange and haunting set of stories. You should check out the second video they did on the King in Yellow.
I highly recommend checking out 'SmoughTown' deep dive lore. I think you'll like his Bloodborne lore on all the Great Ones & Lords of the fallen lore on the Putrid Mother.
Whenever I hear “the king in yellow” I always think of the female demanding princess attitude goddess complexed version from sucker for love called Estir
Lovecraft talks about The King In Yellow in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and it's clearly an influence, particularly in the "forbidden books" aspect of Lovecraft's writing. The book is worth a read, just the first three parts though, the rest of it has nothing to do with Robert W. Chambers original King in Yellow. Not just that but he actually used the city of Carcosa and the god Hastur, both from Robert W. Chambers' writing, in his own stories. Carcosa in turn was borrowed by Chambers from Ambrose Bierce for "The King In Yellow".
The sequel to this video discussing the original story 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' is great. It's called Who is the King in Yellow, and as its title describes, it goes deeper into Carcosa and the King himself.
I have always thought of Carcosa as being the place where stories go when they have been completely forgotten and no one remembers them, as if when I soul disappears and no one remembers them then they too are trapped forever in the land of Carcosa if all logs of a thought or written word are completely lost which I feel like is why its *our* fault that things vanish.
Alright Nux, I have another TH-camr for ya. Sandy of Cthulhu Now Sandy Peterson is considered one of the most prolific experts on the Cthulhu Mythos. By profession he is a game designer and developer. He is the creator of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG (1st edition), Sandy also worked on Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Age of Empires 2 and 3. His shorts discuss various gods in the Mythos as well as the various eldritch horrors like the Ghouls, Tcho-Tcho, Deep Ones, Shoggoths and the like. Seriously, his take on Shub-Niggurath makes her way more terrifying.
I'm pretty sure he has a video about Lovecraft, but I don't remember for sure, but even if he doesn't he does have a video about kaiju/giant monsters in fiction that is very interesting that I wholly recommend.
Would anyone else love to see Nux play Sucker For Love or a video on it after he learns all this Lovecraft lore? lol I feel his reaction would be great
🎉🎉🎉🎉 NEW REACTION REQUEST!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 SCP: 701 The Hanged King's Tragedy. The first story here about the king in yellow reminded me of it! I believe there is also a game about it, though i for the life of me can't find the video i watched about it.
NUX IM SURE YOUVE GOT THIS A TONE BUT YOUVE GOTTA DO A VID ON THE "HANGED KINGS COURT" SCP 701 AND THE COURT OF ALAGADDA SCP 2264 as there both heavily inspired by the king in yellow story and play
I love this channel. they do some great dives into a lot of great writing. my favorites are some of their Junji Ito videos. also Sandman, Bloodborne and Clive Barker also get some great stuff. hyped for the Bloodborne video!! one of my favorite games of all time. also, still strongly recommend checking out Destiny lore from "My Name Is Byf" because it is extensive and fascinating.
Greetings my Lord Nux, The Yellow King and the vibe it gives off with all its anger and mystery reminds me, if only a little of the Pale King in Hollow Knight. I wish you well my Lord l, Fair Well
'In the warp a giant stirred; an image flickered through a mind larger than a nebula. The sleep of Gork was troubled. In his dreams he wore a metal body and led his children to victory. The dream lasted a brief instant of long eternity, something about it caused Gork to smile but not to rouse. In the warp Mork too was disturbed. He dreamed of war spreading like a green stain across the galaxy. He saw billions of his children following giant warmachines built in his crude image on a great crusade. He found the dream good. And slowly his vast mind moved towards wakefulness. Gork and Mork stirred. Their dreams reached out and touched the dreams of their people. A billion Orks turned in their sleep; suddenly, inexplicably infected by scenes of slaughter and reaving, plunder and the taking of worlds. When they awoke they looked on their surroundings and found them dull. Gork struggled towards awareness. After centuries of dormancy it was a long process. He sensed other Powers in the warp trying to interfere. He blocked a subtle tendril from Slaanesh, ignored a baleful warning from the Emperor, discounted the triumphant cry of Khorne. He reached out with his millennia-old mind and gathered the strength of his people. Soon he would be awake and active. A body of steel had been prepared for him. A time of blood and iron was approaching. As Mork gathered strength many a Warboss found himself afflicted with thoughts of power. Ancient ambitions were re-kindled. Long vanished thoughts of conquest stirred in the recesses of slow minds. They planned raids on nearby Humans and toyed with thoughts of alliances with old rivals. Not even great soul-searching could explain why this was so. The Ancient Powers knew what was happening, though. The Waa-Ork was coming. Gork and Mork stirred and a wave of fear passed through the warp. Suicide and incidence of violent crime climbed steeply. On Icolbar an Astropath screamed and threw himself from the balcony of a starscraper apartment, yelling that his people were doomed. On the craft-world Hope of Other Days, an Eldar philosopher stopped listening to the atonal music of his water-chimes and began composing his death-haiku, feeling his life had been justified. On distant Earth, a living corpse in a golden throne opened eyes that held fear for the first time in centuries. Gork felt his attention being tugged towards one tiny world on the edge of Orkdom. A strange attraction drew him to it. He leaned down from warpspace and looked upon it. His breath brought storms in the Ash Desert. His gaze caused machines to break down. His lightest tread brought earthquakes. Seeing the disruption he was causing among his people he withdrew. He knew the time was not yet right for his return. He withdrew but he left a message. Mork moved on the face of the warp, brushing aside Daemons and ignoring ancient barriers set by long dead Gods. He moved from world to world and placed in the heart of every Ork the desire to be restless, to move, to follow the siren call of adventure when it came. He sensed other Powers subtly striving to oppose him and laughed as their attempts to restrain his crude, irresistible purpose. The Emperor knew that he must save his people. If Gork and Mork unleashed their hordes then any unprepared worlds would be swept aside by a green tide of death The Emperor bent his thoughts to the task. Across Human space, within the range of the Astronomicon, Imperial Tarot began to foretell disaster. Commanders consulting them found all the signs of impending catastrophe on a cosmic scale. In the Segmentum Obscura, Battlefleets were recalled and prepared for war. On the homeworlds of the Adeptus Astartes, Space Marines reached for their weapons, knowing their time of destiny was near. On the edges of the Eye Of Terror, the Orders of the Adeptus Titanicus roused their ancient war-machines. Having surveyed his Empire and seen it was ready the dying immortal within the Golden Throne prepared himself for the conflict to come. Gork and Mork knew that they were ready. Their people were agitated and prepared for battle The Emperor, their chosen enemy, had deployed his forces. The first skirmishes had been fought, now war was about to be joined. Beyond them they sensed the Chaos Powers watching, waiting to see what advantage the God-brothers' actions might bring them. In the darkest pits of creation twisted creatures prepared to follow the Orks' advance. Gork and Mork did not care. They knew they were strong enough to resist Chaos. The time was right. The time was now. It was time for Gork and Mork to have some fun. In the Warp Gork and Mork waited, well pleased. Across the face of a million worlds their children were on the move, a green tide that would topple empires and re-shape the Universe. The Waa-Ork was on the move.' I will post this on all of your videos until you watch Baldemort's: The Secret History of the Orks.
To be honest: _The King in Yellow_ wasn't even originally part of the Cthulhu Mythos... Lovecraft just read Robert Chamber's story collection, felt inspired by it, and decided to include the entity as an oblique, off-the-cuff reference in his short story "The Whisperer in the Darkness (Written over the course of February-to-September 1930; eventually published in the August 1931 copy of _Weird Tales_ ). Lovecraft basically fanboyed over it and wanted to include it in his stories. (To be fair, it IS a rather well-written story anthology!) Like how he included not one, but TWO, references to Welsh author Arthur Machen's _The Great God Pan_ in his story, _The Dunwich Horror_ , which is an extremely similar plot to _The Great God Pan_ , to the extent that to those aware of the work, they feel that it, _The Dunwich Horror_ , is derivative! Which Lovecraft himself rather humbly admitted. And let's not get started on his obsession with Edgar Allen Poe, we'll be here for a month otherwise! But where it _REALLY_ took off was when Lovecraft's literary circle associate, August Derleth, who following Lovecraft's death was one of, if not _THE_ , primary reason his stories were kept in circulation, decided to "expand upon" Lovecraft's lore (something he did even while Lovecraft was alive, and Lovecraft purportedly hated/ was VERY STRONGLY ANNOYED by, especially when Derleth tried to include themes of 'Good-vs-Evil' in the Mythos, which ran counter to Lovecraft's own belief that good and evil had no real presence or merit in the grand scheme of things; death came to all regardless of moral alignment) by making the King in Yellow/ Hastur the (Half-)Brother of Cthulhu. More or less stitching the King in Yellow into the Lovecraft Canon, without Lovecraft's express consent, nor the consent of the Estate of Robert W. Chambers, which caused some mild controversy...
Lovecraft was a part of a circle of authors who shared their works and fictional worlds with each other (literally known as the Lovecraft Circle). That’s why so much of the Cthulhu Mythos is written by other people.
Including Conan the barbarian!
@@RyuKaguyawait really!? that’s cool
I'm surprised nobody told Nux that a lot pf these weren't written by Lovecraft
@@chasethemaster3440 Yeah, Robert E. Howard (author of Conan) and Lovecraft were pen-pals. A collection of their letters was even published under the title A Means to Freedom.
Famously, the Conan writer was a close friend of Lovecraft. Lovecraft also routinely wrote his friends into his stories as heroes.
I highly recommend Tale Foundry's other video on the king in yellow, where they dissect and give their interpretation of what the king in yellow is.
I totally agree!
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Hastur
The King in Yellow has already pissed yourself
JoJo: "W-What?!" *Piss starts to drip down pant leg* "Impossible!!!"
@@netapel2625 that's definitely an old Joseph scene
@@josiahws5 Or electric stand
Nux tomorrow: "I am doing a 100% DEEP dive into the Lore... of Fefe and it will be glorious."
Truly, one of the most eldritch of beings to be explored.
Just don't ask about the moon.
"Song of nux's soul, his voice is dead, Die thou, unsung as tears unshed.
Shall dry and die...
On FeFe's bed",
In lost Carcossa
Who's Fefe?
And he’ll do a “deep dive” IN fefe if you know what I mean
So The Mask's excerpt from the King In Yellow play is a reference to the 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allen Poe, wherein a stranger wearing a strange red mask attends a masquerade ball being held by a gathering of pompous nobles amidst a virulent plague called the Red Death. The host, offended by the color of the mask and how it makes them and the other nobles uncomfortable considering the events surrounding the festivities, demands that the strager remove their mask and reveal themselves. The stranger reveals that they aren't wearing a mask, much to their horror, and come the morning all the nobles are dead. The implication is that the Stranger is actually the specter of Death Itself, able to appear to the nobles as they are all already infected by the Red Death and thus doomed to a horrible painful death that no one will know about until someone visits the manor and knocks down the locked doors the nobles had used to try and shut out the outside world and the plight of their fellow man, only to find their diseased corpses. However, another interpretation is that the stranger is someone with the Red Death who managed to slip in to the masquerade ball, and their face was so horrible that everyone thought it was just a mask, and they do not realize this until they have locked themselves in with the man and mingled with him, infecting all of them and consigning themselves to a horrible fate.
The horror of the Masque of the Red Death, and by extension the short excerpt from the King In Yellow, is encountering something that wears the shape of a person, like Death or the thing that is called the King In Yellow, only to discover that it is in fact something much more horrible and inevitable, and that it may very well be something you have brought upon yourself through your own actions.
With the King In Yellow, there is an underlying theme, not of the inherent power of words and language, but the perception of madness from the person afflicted. Take a moment to ponder whether any of the characters in this story are reliable narrators, and whether or not things have played out as they, and by extension the author and Tale Foundry, has described.
In 'The Repairer of Reputations', the main character suffers from a delusional madness, and at the end he suffers a moment of clarity, wailing about how the crown of the King In Yellow has passed to his cousin. As we do not have the full context of the play of the King In Yellow, we are left to ponder if this moment of clarity is a realization that the curse of the King In Yellow has actually passed to someone else, or that they have reenacted something from the play and believe now the crown has passed either to their living or dead relative.
The Mask tells two stories. The excerpt tells part of the story of the play, with the aforementioned reference to the Masque of the Red Death implying that the stranger is some foreboding presence akin to Death Itself, while the short story tells of a man who has hidden away his true self to conform to the expectations of others, and he now believes he is truly living the lie, but in doing so he winds up getting everything he's ever wanted. While on the surface there's a heartwarming tale of self-sacrifice and perseverance being karmincally rewarded with true love and prosperity, even amidst tragedy, there is something that the audience must remember; the main character of The Mask has been lying since the beginning, and the excerpt from the play specifically addresses the perception of falsehoods versus reality through the masks. So, when they talk about how the love of their life miraculously survived a fatal accident after her husband killed himself in grief and left everything to the main character, we are left to ask the question: Did that actually happen? Perhaps, and maybe the tale is tragic but wholesome, but perhaps the husband didn't kill himself and it was all a conspiracy between two lovers to steal his fortune. Or, perhaps none of this happened, and the man wearing the mask has become so deluded he thinks he's gotten everything he ever wanted, when the reality of the matter could be far more bleak and grim.
In The Court of the Dragon, the main character goes to seek comfort in a familiar church after reading the play of the King In Yellow has shaken his faith, but as the pastor delivers a sermon about how nothing can harm the soul, he finds no comfort in the words, and is instead brought to revulsion by the hateful countenance of the organist, and believes the organist is out to get him and equating the organist with Death Itself. In the end, he is dragged away by the organist and finds himself in Carcosa, being comforted by the King In Yellow. Taken at face value, this is a strange case of the man being whisked away to another world by something he was initially afraid of and finding comfort in a strange alien being, but there's an issue. Why would the organist be the thing that drags him to Carcosa, and why would the man find peace in the King In Yellow that had previously shaken his faith? Well, we now tread down the matter of open interpretation of metaphor and symbolism, but let us assume that the organist represents something; something so traumatic that the man cannot find peace in his faith in God, as the organist's presence undermines that faith and makes it feel empty and disgusting, and it is only when the organist catches up to them and drags them to Carcosa that he meets the King In Yellow and finds peace. My interpretation there is that the organist represents a guilt or trauma that runs so deep that the man cannot believe it has not damaged his soul and his standing with God, and it is only through being dragged kicking and screaming to admit what has happened that he finds Carcosa and the King In Yellow, and through him finds peace.
The last story, The Yellow Sign, talks about how the main character refuses to read the King In Yellow for fear of what it could do to him, and he is haunted by the specter of a corpse-like man that, as the man's wife introduces him to the Yellow Sign and they learn of the King In Yellow, burst into their lives after years of tormenting the man and ruining his creative spirit, condemning the man to an asylum as his wife is taken away from him, and the authorities are left discussing how the corpse had been dead for years.
If you've read this far, you might have already pieced together what I'm about to say, but here's my interpretation.
The main character across all these stories is actually the same person, and we are hearing a distorted retelling of the events of their life, either as told by them or reimagined by various storytellers. The man in question is a deranged murderer that has lost his wife after his crimes were discovered and he's been dragged away to an insane asylum. The organist and the corpse-like man is the specter of the man he murdered, haunting him, and throughout each story he has told lies to either paint himself as a tragic victim or hide from his own guilt. What the original story actually was is impossible to say, but Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and the King In Yellow, as in both the play and the entity itself, are all a metaphor for this unnamed madman trying to contend with his perception of God, religion, and the state of his own soul. My reading is that in the end, whatever this man did, in the end he managed to find his faith in God and found peace with himself, believing he was forgiven for the things he had done, even if it's all a delusion and he's still locked in asylum somewhere instead of finding himself beside his God in the Kingdom of Heaven; the King In Yellow in Carcosa
In that vein, the King In Yellow is a metaphor for the peculiar state of madness, and the author likens religion in all its forms to be a peculiar form of madness that can drive people insane or compel them to commit terrible acts, but can also grant them peace of mind and fulfillment, and ultimately the supposed delusion of religion may indeed be true if there is indeed a King In Yellow out there somewhere, but all the same it will often seem as nothing more than fanciful literature or the deranged ramblings of fanatical madmen to those that do not already believe in it.
Of course, that's just my take on it as someone who's just read the cliff notes of the King In Yellow, so I'm probably putting way too much stock in this.
It's crazy how a god of shepherds got mentioned once by H.P.Lovecraft and changed forever into cthulhus' step brother.
August Derleth has a lot to answer for.
Tbf ‘God of Shepherds’ goes hard as a Lovecraft thing.
if you wanna a really king of yellow but slightly different but a real effect is a game called signalis you have to consumed it by any means either play it or watch the flood of reviews and documents there is one by bricky i have an agenda to spread the holy word of the greatness of this game . plz Nux PLZ
Just in case Nux sees this
I'd like to offer an interpretation on Carcosa with the themes in the video:
Carcosa could represent the idea of being creatively lost. A place where the light you need to see loses more and more of itself to lengthening shadows and you're powerless to stop it. A place of weird things you could never understand and when you try and put your soul out there, your very voice, the truest expression of you, nothing around is even capable of understanding. So it dies
This... this explains a lot.
The King in Yellow theme, and Carcosa, is about... Unravelling (There is that power in words)
The play unravels you. Your grip on self, your grip on relationships, your grip on belief. The whole world, as the play spreads.
Carcosa is where the unravelled husks go, to fade into oblivion. In short its the dark fall into Dementia. And how it ruins lives. The horror is how that dementia is a force applied, a tool, of a dark, living god.
The movie Annihilation, I believe, taps strongly into the King in Yellow. Same flavor of eldritch horror.
Neat
Their other video called “Who is the king in yellow” goes a lot more into the weeds on what the King really is, and clears up a lot of the existential questions.
And then there's a game where you can marry the King in Yellow. I am not kidding.
Name of the game, please?
And it’s a damn good game lol.
@@GreebleClownsucker for love: first date
@@GreebleClown Sucker for love : first date. Anime visual novel
I mean, in Sucker for Love, you can marry EVERYONE of these existential universe demons
2:14 Hastur, The King in Yellow and Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos - are different entities.
Hastur is the Lovecraftian version of the King in Yellow, which is Robert Chambers' creation, even before HP which is wild. Robert Chambers' works are insanely good.
@howardhavardramberg7160 I read the King In Yellow a few years ago. It was VERY interesting, even if a lot of the later stories aren't even really horror. It was written in 1895 but it takes place in a speculative future of the 1920s.
Bruh,
Nyarlathotep is the Pharoah in Red
Literally a different color and a different title. How do you confuse them?
(It’s obscure, and usually he’s a big crawling chaotic tentacle thing, but there are passages saying he a appeared as a pharaoh)
@smileywarhead5178 it's literally not confusing them, it's not knowing the mythos to a degree that allows you to distinguish them.
Nux, you will LOVE Tale Foundry's stuff, it's all BRILLIANT deep-dives into stories and such.
sometimes you surprise me with all that intelligence behind your facade of memes
He truly is a philosophical enigma 😂
can't break a mind if it's already broken *points to own head
McGuckett energy
👉🙂
I guess that is where the idea for The Hanged Kings Tragedy SCP
Indeed.
Along with all Alagadda, the Ambassador and the regents, especially the yellow lord.
701, one of my favorites
Wich scp os that one?
The HBO show True Detective mentions king in yellow and carcosa in first season. I went down a deep rabbit hole after realizing that. It was not worth it. It'll haunt you.
unironically the poem has been stuck in my mind since learning it. Enjoy the curse of it randomly popping into your head.
Theirs a song on Spotify called Yellow King by the Hangman’s Hymnal. It’s a good listen
Malevolent has me thinking only about John and Yellow. John W and my poor eldritch being Yellow. I need a Yellow redemption arc.
I was just thinking a couple of days ago "Nux should do more Tale Foundry reactions"
I'd highly recommend the Exploring Series SCP video about the Hanged King, in relation to the King in Yellow.
Yea the hanged king is basically the scp version of the king in yellow. And one hanged king related scp is literally carcosa/ the means of traveling to carcosa.
The Yellow Sign has already touched the doorknob !
Words can be powerful. Especially when written to make you invested in what's being said. I believe one of the best things to live in this world, is discovering stories. Both old and new, the books, music, and video, to the truth and fiction. There's so much to see and hear that can change you, and that will stay with you till your dying day. And I think that's truly amazing.
Yo Nux, since you are reacting to this guy, I would reccommend u watch his video on "the ocean at the end of the lane" its pretty good and it even got a theatrical production.
What if: What if human imagination wasn't always just that but the memory/energy of beings and happenings that have long since passed simply passing through the Aether? If Memories are factual Energy then they end up going somewhere when their container finally ceases to contain.
Hey Nux, I love your videos. Though at the end of the tale foundry video it wasn't Patreon, it was the Nebula Streaming service.
Love your philosophy videos and can't wait to see what you pick up that others missed.
Tale foundry did an amazing video on "Watership Down", I definitely recommend.
All of tale foundries videos are bangers
I love that you are reacting to Tale Foundry! Love them! Leaving this at the start of the video. Hope you enjoyed it!
The king in Yellow is one of the inspirations to one of the coolest Daedric Princes Hermaeus Mora, Keeper of deeper knowledge.
i think the theme of TKIY is how there are some forces in universe that can be powerful and not with a physical appearance
Have you seen the yellow sign ?
Você viu o sinal amarelo?
黄色い看板を見たことがありますか?
Hast du das gelbe Zeichen gesehen?
Videsne flavum signum?
You should react to the Hanged King SCP lore. It's basically the King in Yellow but as an SCP and it is my absolute favorite.
Edit to add my recommendation for the video by "The Exploring Series" on TH-cam that compiles the most relevant Hanged King stories and tales together in a great way.
I mean if you want to connect it to the imperium of man, the Emperor uses a lot of gold in his motifs, and gold is a type of yellow hue; ergo The Man-Emperor of Man is The King in Yellow
Funnily enough, the King In Yellow has also been adapted into 40K directly by name. Though it's not anything related to the original or Lovecraft interpretations.
@@bilbobagend8155It turned out to be an important Custodes, didn’t it?
@@fosterbennington6405 Literally Constantin Valdor himself.
The King in Yellow predates Lovecraft. It got rolled into the mythos later.
My favorite tale involving The King in Yellow is about Old Man Henderson, a man who battles the cult of The King in Yellow and ultimately the Elder God itself because Henderson thinks they stole his lawn gnomes and he wants them back.
Nux is reacting to my fav channels recently
I only have one request and it’s for Nux to check out Sock Sensei’s “Making Sense of Evangelion”
Nux should definetly dive deep into the alternate Lovecraft lore - THE Smoochable One. Peak fiction right there
It's almost as if the King in Yellow has... some sort of ability that makes you go crazy just from looking at him...
I recommend after watching this Tale foundry video to watch another one by him explaining who Hastur is.
I 1st learned about the _The King in Yellow_ from _MLP abridges,_ then _SCP._
Honestly, I recommend both to Nux.
The city of Alagadda and everything related to it is a fascinating facet of the SCP universes, especially as to how it relates to some early SCP (Please don't do the infographic animation rewrite videos, they just change/remove so much).
And just the concept that, of the eldritch beings trying to collect payment from Twi, without her knowing about her other persona's deal with them.
Thrakazod!
He has a video that specifically focus on carcosa, I definitely recommend you take a look
sucker for love is the best lovecraft game ever
so as i hear this lore dive. i get the feeling. the the movie Heavy Metal was inspired by this story because both basically preview several short stories only vaguely connected by one entity and nothing else other then madness or chaos.
7:07 it at it's most powerful in your childhoods cause it's the first things you ever see. How else did I decide to make my brand new profile picture based off of Sonic and Mater Chief as a combined character? Exactly. Mega Collection Plus made made me feel a way that I miss dearly. I guess I've always love things that are bigger than me, but that's not the case anymore. Comprehending how it's all made is the first step in losing those cool childhood emotions.
The King in Yellow is by Robert W. Chambers tho, not Lovecraft.
Take Foundry has another video about the nature of the King in Yellow, would recommend
Ok. Now its time for Nux to watch Tale Foundry's second video on this subject: "Who is the King in Yellow?"
Nux, I think you'd _love_ "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a book about the memoirs of a blind man that's writing about a legendary documentary that doesn't exist. The documentary is centered around a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
I read it back in 2005, about a year before I graduated from high school. It's an absolutely insane book and the author has gone on record as saying that a good half of the entire project was dedicated to fucking with the reader xD
If you haven't played myhouse.wad it's inspired by the book.
There’s a being in the scp universe very similar and likely highly inspired by The King in Yellow. The being is called The Hanged King and it manifests though a play called The hanged kings tragity (scp-701). You’ll also want to look at the city of Alagadda (scp-2264) over which The Hanged King its ambassador and four lords; the white lord, the yellow lord, the red lord, and the black lord. The ambassador is described as being incredibly powerful and the hanged king himself has only been witnessed by one person that has survived to tell the tale, that person describes the Hanged King as “a god-shaped hole in reality”
I Wished you would cover some hotline miami lore, I think you'll like it
I had this vision of you in a Meat Canyon animation just trying to survive and you were full meta and nothing could stop your power as (a) god of cancelled.
That is so para social. I was just trying to sleep.
_An author places some of themselves in a book._
_But the reader withdraws something of their own perception as well._
_I wondered what I might see in the book._
_A child believes a lie because they know no better._
_A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience._
_In this way, a child's story could be so many different experiences._
_With enough subtext, a thing made for a child becomes an entirely different world to an adult._
_A shame you didn't finish reading._
_Oh! uhh, A bird in the hoof is always looks twice before crossing the street!_
_Quite._
_I'll be borrowing Spike for a better re-education about how he should handle locks he can't access without force._
_Keep an open mind Twilight._
_There's no telling when subtext will defeat the facade of a thing._
5:17 I remember watching a video where Destiny was debating Sneako and Destiny said "Doing something just someone told you not to just makes you a sheep of the other herd"
Boss you gotta do the Angelarium video by tale foundry sometime. One of my personal favorites of his channel
Tale foundry got me to pick up the book. It really is a strange and haunting set of stories. You should check out the second video they did on the King in Yellow.
I highly recommend checking out 'SmoughTown' deep dive lore.
I think you'll like his Bloodborne lore on all the Great Ones & Lords of the fallen lore on the Putrid Mother.
If you get the chance you'd love an animation of 40k called The Last Church. It's your thing.
I adore this story, and it’s told so beautifully by this creator. Definitely an excellent tale of mankind’s futility.
Whenever I hear “the king in yellow” I always think of the female demanding princess attitude goddess complexed version from sucker for love called Estir
“Art can really change you”
Reminds me of Tom from Parks and Rec staring at abstract art for 5 hours.
Ideas are alive. Here in a real sense. The king in yellow could be trying to be brought to life by influencing the minds of people (like Cthulhu).
The play unleashes madness in however form it is perceived
Lovecraft talks about The King In Yellow in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and it's clearly an influence, particularly in the "forbidden books" aspect of Lovecraft's writing. The book is worth a read, just the first three parts though, the rest of it has nothing to do with Robert W. Chambers original King in Yellow.
Not just that but he actually used the city of Carcosa and the god Hastur, both from Robert W. Chambers' writing, in his own stories. Carcosa in turn was borrowed by Chambers from Ambrose Bierce for "The King In Yellow".
The sequel to this video discussing the original story 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' is great. It's called Who is the King in Yellow, and as its title describes, it goes deeper into Carcosa and the King himself.
I have always thought of Carcosa as being the place where stories go when they have been completely forgotten and no one remembers them, as if when I soul disappears and no one remembers them then they too are trapped forever in the land of Carcosa if all logs of a thought or written word are completely lost which I feel like is why its *our* fault that things vanish.
There is a physical King in Yellow in Lovecraft's Dreamworld. Randolph Carter doesn't stick around to talk to him.
Alright Nux, I have another TH-camr for ya.
Sandy of Cthulhu
Now Sandy Peterson is considered one of the most prolific experts on the Cthulhu Mythos. By profession he is a game designer and developer. He is the creator of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG (1st edition), Sandy also worked on Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Age of Empires 2 and 3.
His shorts discuss various gods in the Mythos as well as the various eldritch horrors like the Ghouls, Tcho-Tcho, Deep Ones, Shoggoths and the like.
Seriously, his take on Shub-Niggurath makes her way more terrifying.
Yeeees I’ve been waiting for this!
Nux needs to see the Ambassador of Alagadda, which was inspired by the King in Yellow and Lost Carcosa
I'm pretty sure he has a video about Lovecraft, but I don't remember for sure, but even if he doesn't he does have a video about kaiju/giant monsters in fiction that is very interesting that I wholly recommend.
LETS GO, MORE TALE FOUNDERY
27:07 this reminds me of Mandella Catalogue
Tale Foundry is a good channel for lore philosophy, perspectives, and writing. Highly recommend this channel for Nux
Yo Nuxanor. I'd recommend watching the US Presidents make a Dinosaur Fighting Tierlist by Ai Presidential Chats.
Nux needs to see the story of the hanged king
Would anyone else love to see Nux play Sucker For Love or a video on it after he learns all this Lovecraft lore? lol I feel his reaction would be great
I dreamed last night that I watched this video already, but I can’t have seen it yet, because it’s only been 3 hours since it was posted.
I love your analysis Nux
I'm an SCP fan and this reminds me of SCP-701 The Hanged King's Tragedy
SCP has their own take on the play King in Yellow and Carcossa: The Hanged King and Alagadda.
A lot of lovecraft lore is actually from people building on his work since he never copyrighted it. its been a open resource since near its beginning.
I highly recommend his Worst villains video. It's just cool analysis.
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SCP: 701 The Hanged King's Tragedy.
The first story here about the king in yellow reminded me of it! I believe there is also a game about it, though i for the life of me can't find the video i watched about it.
Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen in Carcosa.
It's like memes and popular culture, they get everywhere like Star Wars or LoTR, even if you don't want to know you come to know
NUX IM SURE YOUVE GOT THIS A TONE BUT YOUVE GOTTA DO A VID ON THE "HANGED KINGS COURT" SCP 701 AND THE COURT OF ALAGADDA SCP 2264 as there both heavily inspired by the king in yellow story and play
You should look into lord of the mysteries its a good lovecraftian novel
Nux big lore! Nux says once agian he isn't single.
And new lore she doesn't mind the h3nt@i!
I love this channel. they do some great dives into a lot of great writing. my favorites are some of their Junji Ito videos. also Sandman, Bloodborne and Clive Barker also get some great stuff. hyped for the Bloodborne video!! one of my favorite games of all time. also, still strongly recommend checking out Destiny lore from "My Name Is Byf" because it is extensive and fascinating.
Nux can you do Baldermorts Thunder Warriors they are Proto space marines it is super good
Greetings my Lord Nux, The Yellow King and the vibe it gives off with all its anger and mystery reminds me, if only a little of the Pale King in Hollow Knight. I wish you well my Lord l, Fair Well
Auto correct put anger but i meant Grainger
Replace Anger with Grainger
Now you're ready for the Hanged King. If you do it, please use the Exploring Series.
If you like this concept, the SCP concept of the Hanged King will definitely be up your alley.
'In the warp a giant stirred; an image flickered through a mind larger than a nebula. The sleep of Gork was troubled. In his dreams he wore a metal body and led his children to victory. The dream lasted a brief instant of long eternity, something about it caused Gork to smile but not to rouse.
In the warp Mork too was disturbed. He dreamed of war spreading like a green stain across the galaxy. He saw billions of his children following giant warmachines built in his crude image on a great crusade. He found the dream good. And slowly his vast mind moved towards wakefulness.
Gork and Mork stirred. Their dreams reached out and touched the dreams of their people. A billion Orks turned in their sleep; suddenly, inexplicably infected by scenes of slaughter and reaving, plunder and the taking of worlds. When they awoke they looked on their surroundings and found them dull.
Gork struggled towards awareness. After centuries of dormancy it was a long process. He sensed other Powers in the warp trying to interfere. He blocked a subtle tendril from Slaanesh, ignored a baleful warning from the Emperor, discounted the triumphant cry of Khorne. He reached out with his millennia-old mind and gathered the strength of his people. Soon he would be awake and active. A body of steel had been prepared for him. A time of blood and iron was approaching.
As Mork gathered strength many a Warboss found himself afflicted with thoughts of power. Ancient ambitions were re-kindled. Long vanished thoughts of conquest stirred in the recesses of slow minds. They planned raids on nearby Humans and toyed with thoughts of alliances with old rivals. Not even great soul-searching could explain why this was so. The Ancient Powers knew what was happening, though. The Waa-Ork was coming.
Gork and Mork stirred and a wave of fear passed through the warp. Suicide and incidence of violent crime climbed steeply. On Icolbar an Astropath screamed and threw himself from the balcony of a starscraper apartment, yelling that his people were doomed. On the craft-world Hope of Other Days, an Eldar philosopher stopped listening to the atonal music of his water-chimes and began composing his death-haiku, feeling his life had been justified. On distant Earth, a living corpse in a golden throne opened eyes that held fear for the first time in centuries.
Gork felt his attention being tugged towards one tiny world on the edge of Orkdom. A strange attraction drew him to it. He leaned down from warpspace and looked upon it. His breath brought storms in the Ash Desert. His gaze caused machines to break down. His lightest tread brought earthquakes. Seeing the disruption he was causing among his people he withdrew. He knew the time was not yet right for his return. He withdrew but he left a message.
Mork moved on the face of the warp, brushing aside Daemons and ignoring ancient barriers set by long dead Gods. He moved from world to world and placed in the heart of every Ork the desire to be restless, to move, to follow the siren call of adventure when it came. He sensed other Powers subtly striving to oppose him and laughed as their attempts to restrain his crude, irresistible purpose.
The Emperor knew that he must save his people. If Gork and Mork unleashed their hordes then any unprepared worlds would be swept aside by a green tide of death The Emperor bent his thoughts to the task. Across Human space, within the range of the Astronomicon, Imperial Tarot began to foretell disaster. Commanders consulting them found all the signs of impending catastrophe on a cosmic scale.
In the Segmentum Obscura, Battlefleets were recalled and prepared for war. On the homeworlds of the Adeptus Astartes, Space Marines reached for their weapons, knowing their time of destiny was near. On the edges of the Eye Of Terror, the Orders of the Adeptus Titanicus roused their ancient war-machines. Having surveyed his Empire and seen it was ready the dying immortal within the Golden Throne prepared himself for the conflict to come.
Gork and Mork knew that they were ready. Their people were agitated and prepared for battle The Emperor, their chosen enemy, had deployed his forces. The first skirmishes had been fought, now war was about to be joined.
Beyond them they sensed the Chaos Powers watching, waiting to see what advantage the God-brothers' actions might bring them. In the darkest pits of creation twisted creatures prepared to follow the Orks' advance. Gork and Mork did not care. They knew they were strong enough to resist Chaos.
The time was right. The time was now. It was time for Gork and Mork to have some fun.
In the Warp Gork and Mork waited, well pleased. Across the face of a million worlds their children were on the move, a green tide that would topple empires and re-shape the Universe. The Waa-Ork was on the move.'
I will post this on all of your videos until you watch Baldemort's: The Secret History of the Orks.
Damm bro
To be honest: _The King in Yellow_ wasn't even originally part of the Cthulhu Mythos... Lovecraft just read Robert Chamber's story collection, felt inspired by it, and decided to include the entity as an oblique, off-the-cuff reference in his short story "The Whisperer in the Darkness (Written over the course of February-to-September 1930; eventually published in the August 1931 copy of _Weird Tales_ ).
Lovecraft basically fanboyed over it and wanted to include it in his stories. (To be fair, it IS a rather well-written story anthology!)
Like how he included not one, but TWO, references to Welsh author Arthur Machen's _The Great God Pan_ in his story, _The Dunwich Horror_ , which is an extremely similar plot to _The Great God Pan_ , to the extent that to those aware of the work, they feel that it, _The Dunwich Horror_ , is derivative!
Which Lovecraft himself rather humbly admitted.
And let's not get started on his obsession with Edgar Allen Poe, we'll be here for a month otherwise!
But where it _REALLY_ took off was when Lovecraft's literary circle associate, August Derleth, who following Lovecraft's death was one of, if not _THE_ , primary reason his stories were kept in circulation, decided to "expand upon" Lovecraft's lore (something he did even while Lovecraft was alive, and Lovecraft purportedly hated/ was VERY STRONGLY ANNOYED by, especially when Derleth tried to include themes of 'Good-vs-Evil' in the Mythos, which ran counter to Lovecraft's own belief that good and evil had no real presence or merit in the grand scheme of things; death came to all regardless of moral alignment) by making the King in Yellow/ Hastur the (Half-)Brother of Cthulhu. More or less stitching the King in Yellow into the Lovecraft Canon, without Lovecraft's express consent, nor the consent of the Estate of Robert W. Chambers, which caused some mild controversy...
been waiting for this video!
This is reminding me of the Lovecraftian movie from John Carpenter, In the Mouth of Madness.
Tale Foundry is a great channel
Avoiding the art piece is in itself a change in behavior brought upon you by the art piece
Nux should react to Tale Foundry's video on "Death as a person."