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Hello there, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I'm Eric Peabody, your host and narrator,

and tonight's episode is going to be a little different than usual. We had an unexpected delay

in our story pipeline, and I found myself suddenly wondering what the hell I'd be reading to you

this week. Well, as luck would have it, I was recently paging through some classic

weird fiction and figured it might be a good time for us to dive into the classics. So take

your seats class, get your pencil sharpened, and let's read some Robert W. Chambers. If any of you

already recognize that name, then you're probably at least

passingly familiar with Chambers' most famous creation, The King in Yellow, a collection

of short stories from 1895. While the tone of these stories varies wildly, swinging from

surreal horror to poetic romance, there is a common thread throughout,

the manuscript of an eponymous play that drives people mad upon reading it.

Elements from these stories, such as the play, the actual king himself, and the associated

yellow sign, have been adopted into the Lovecraft-Cathulu mythos as the years

went on, and have also been mentioned in more recent media like True Detective.

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