The King In Yellow

[Nemonymous]

I was surprised, when searching on TLO, that there is no existing thread with the title 'The King In Yellow' - till now.

So...
The King In Yellow – My Real-Time Review




THE KING IN YELLOW by Robert W. Chambers
London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly (1895)

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I am proud that Joe Pulver says the following publicly here:

"So glad you enjoyed it, Des. Always hoped when you came upon it, you wouldn’t want me dead. Also, always thought if any writer I admire was Carcosan through and through, it was you, so I had to drop you into one of my tales."

	TLO THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

The King In Yellow – My Real-Time Review

I have just completed my review of 'The Yellow Sign'. I would be very grateful for views on my thesis set out there on this particular classic story. A thesis that is quite strange, I suppose, but one difficult to ignore, I hope. Thanks to Harold Billings for the scholarly observation he originally made about one specific line from this story.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

The King In Yellow – My Real-Time Review

I have just finished my review of the whole book.
What do others think of Rue Barrée? And some of the other lesser known stories?

[Nemonymous]

THE KING IN YELLOW TALES, VOL. 1 : by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Lovecraft Ezine Press, 2015


My previous real-time review of ‘The King in Yellow’ by Robert W. Chambers HERE
…and of the work of Joe Pulver as linked from HERE.

1. A LINE OF QUESTIONS
   An achingly recurrent tontine of a poem in Dim Carcosa, I say.
   
   
   
   
2. “What comes after the lost song?”
   
   
   
3. My answer is: The Last Song.
   
   
   
4. A threnody of ‘Dissolution’s endless melody” – as are the Four Last Songs…
   
   
   
5. “It’s a marvellously important advance beyond the tonal and graphic subtleties of Richard Strauss.”
   as Robert W. Chambers wrote in his ‘The Common Law’ about this very poem that hadn’t yet been written then. It was just waiting to be asked, I guess.
   
   

THIS REVIEW WILL CONTINUE HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com...w-tales-vol-1/

[Joe Pulver]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

THE KING IN YELLOW TALES, VOL. 1 : by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Lovecraft Ezine Press, 2015 My previous real-time review of ‘The King in Yellow’ by Robert W. Chambers HERE …and of the work of Joe Pulver as linked from HERE. A LINE OF QUESTIONS An achingly recurrent tontine of a poem in Dim Carcosa, I say. “What comes after the lost song?” My answer is: The Last Song. A threnody of ‘Dissolution’s endless melody” – as are the Four Last Songs… “It’s a marvellously important advance beyond the tonal and graphic subtleties of Richard Strauss.” as Robert W. Chambers wrote in his ‘The Common Law’ about this very poem that hadn’t yet been written then. It was just waiting to be asked, I guess. THIS REVIEW WILL CONTINUE HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com...w-tales-vol-1/

To say, I'm looking forward to this, is a vast understatement.

[Joe Pulver]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

I was surprised, when searching on TLO, that there is no existing thread with the title 'The King In Yellow' - till now. So... The King In Yellow – My Real-Time Review THE KING IN YELLOW by Robert W. Chambers London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly (1895) ============================================= I am proud that Joe Pulver says the following publicly here: "So glad you enjoyed it, Des. Always hoped when you came upon it, you wouldn’t want me dead. Also, always thought if any writer I admire was Carcosan through and through, it was you, so I had to drop you into one of my tales."

I've always loved tipping my hat to writers I admire, so it was w/ very great pleasure, that I came upon a spot where you fit in. OVERmoon you enjoyed it!! !

	TLO THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE

[Joe Pulver]

This is the ToC for the collection of mine, Des is reviewing.
A Line of Questions
Choosing
The “Carl Lee & Cassilda” Trilogy
Carl Lee & Cassilda
An American Tango Ending in Madness
Hello Is a Yellow Kiss

The Last Few Nights In A Life Of Frost (Original “unpublished” version)
Chasing Shadows
Last Year in Carcosa
An Engagement of Hearts
Cordelia’s Song (Previously unpublished)
Saint Nicholas Hall
A Spider In the Distance
Under the Mask Another Mask
Epilogue For Two Voices
Yvrain’s “Black Dancers”
The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King
The Sky Will Not Fall (Previously unpublished)
Tark Left Santiago
Marks and Scars and Flags
Long-Stemmed Ghost Words
In This Desert Even the Air Burns
Perfect Grace
My Mirage
Mother Stands For Comfort
A Cold Yellow Moon (by Edward R. Morris Jr. and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)

I overall rate Lovecraft significantly higher than Chambers, but the King in Yellow/Carcosa legendarium of vagueries is one I find substantially more evocative than the Cthulhu Mythos. An elegy of the oblique uncanny.

I immensely enjoyed A Season in Carcosa, and am looking forward to dipping in to Joe's works as he seems to really understand my kind of weird fiction.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

“It’s a marvellously important advance beyond the tonal and graphic subtleties of Richard Strauss.” as Robert W. Chambers wrote in his ‘The Common Law’ about this very poem that hadn’t yet been written then. It was just waiting to be asked, I guess.

Thanks, Joe, for your comments on my forthcoming review of your book.

BTW, the fascinating context of that Robert W. Chambers quote, I've now shown here: https://classicalhorror.wordpress.com/623-2/

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Thiiiiis is about the newwwww anthology, check it out.


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