The King in Yellow: The most DANGEROUS Occult Book

[@tecramos]

Poor King in Yellow, he only wants to reveal his 11 spices recipe and humans just go insane.

[@slothman6696]

right, he's not evil, just misunderstood.

[@deforeestwright2469]

This is one of the best books ever written. And it includes some of the best prose-poetry ever written.

[@jhamler1]

I wouldn't go that far. It's mysterious, yes, but not really all that compelling.

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

*Before reading Robert W. Chambers' **_The King in Yellow,_** you'd best read Ambrose Bierce's **_An Inhabitant ot Carcosa._** There's also a good audio reading done here on YT by **_Horrorbabble._*

[@DeeMolition]

There's more than one Bierce story that actually begins the King in Yellow mythology. "Haita the Shepherd" introduces Hastur, as a benevelent god of shepherds. "The Damned Thing" seems to inspire Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space."

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

@@DeeMolition I didn't know that, but I thank you for the recommendation, sir. I'll check it out.

[@jakoblevantinus9113]

The horror is more subtle than Lovecraft, but sublime. The first story is great. My favorite is, "The Yellow Sign." Profoundly Creepy.

[@LoneCanadianPoet]

Here is a SECRET... to get the complete story you must read a series of books in THIS ORDER: 1)The Catcher In The Rye 2)The Great Gatsby 3)The Castle[Kafka] 4)The Masque of The Red Death[Poe] and finally 5)The King In Yellow. If you have not died from the tedious boredom of such a task, THEN you... YOU... you will be awarded with a suitable revelation and its maddening truth.😂

[@lewieanderson6579]

The king in yellow...is you.

[@Of.One.Substance]

Yes. The Perennial Wisdom, the Key to Life… 🌹

[@ChiefWoad]

my first thought while listening to this was behind the mask was a mirror reflecting the face of the protagonist.

[@apollomann9540]

Who? Me?

[@lewieanderson6579]

The person that is looking at the mirror which would be the person who is the king in yellow...meaning you

[@YellowKing126]

Indeed 😊

[@kirablackstar6130]

Thats crazy because the book I read is nothing like this. The first story was really the only thing close to cosmic horror the rest were....idk what...but it only got more boring with each chapter

[@GothPaoki]

There's not just one horror story there but quite a lot. But yes i do understand why someone would find this a strange reading. Jumping from a purely social story to a horror one is weird. Especially if you're not aware that most horror back then had a symbiote relationship with social stories and writers who wrote them was common to write both genres . This is a habit that persisted long after even to writers like Stephen king who grew up with those stories. You'd be surprised by how many social stories king has that have nothing to do with horror. I was a bit perplexed reading that book myself

[@alanbooker1955]

That is exactly what I thought, after watching this video I got the book, the biggest horror was the disappointment I felt.

[@fnunez]

@@alanbooker1955 Yes I would recommend not spending any money and instead listening to the audio versions on YT. Horrorbabble has a very good reading.

[@Watchman70]

Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan is another great one.

[@paullevine1813]

All depends on what we perceive as real or unreal if you let it. Still, it holds that fascination we that love Cosmic Horror can't resist. Don't read the tale to us is like saying there's a dead body under that sheet, don't look at it yet we will. Lovecraft & the writers of this genera were a breed like no other the authors we have had & we are grateful for that.

[@sprag80]

Lovecraft’s Mythos intrigues me. It does not scare me . The King in Yellow and related works frighten me. Thanks for uploading this. Great, great art.

[@anadmirer8789]

“Cordelia’s Song from The King in Yellow” (1938) by Vincent Starrett The moon shines whitely; I shall take My silk umbrella, lest the moon Too warmly fall upon the lake And cause my bridal flowers to swoon. The sparrow’s sorrow is in vain, And so does he his bride forget. I wed the long grass and the rain, And seven sailors dripping wet. And shall not you and shall not I Keep tryst beside this silent stream, Who thought that we should rather die Than wed the peacock’s amber dream? The moon shines whitely; I shall take My silk umbrella, lest the moon Too coldly fall upon the lake And chill my bridal flowers too soon.

[@seanathaalexand]

Anyone else get distracted by the non-copyright music being the same used in Creepcast or is that just me?

[@spectre8768]

As a fan of True Detective season 1, I want to thank you for posting this. After watching the video, I have a much better understanding of what was really going on in the season finale.

[@fleetcenturion]

Except for the fact that he made all this up yesterday. Absolutely none of what he describes fits the story, or represents Chambers' work.

[@spectre8768]

@@fleetcenturion be that as it may, it's still a good companion to that season 1 finale when Ruste and Marty found their king in yellow and entered Carcosa.

[@cesly87]

You’re in Carcosa now, little priest.”

[@spectre8768]

@cesly87 "take off your mask"

[@Baker311]

@@fleetcenturionIts part of the Chatgpt synthetic data from where the script for this video came from probably and it messed up somewhere welcome to the new KZbin.

[@patriciahayes2664]

Beautiful artwork!

[@rodbarrett1581]

Great stuff. In the industry it seems divided when the discussion is about stretching. Many say it is damaging and makes muscles and tissue more prone to injury. And many say its key. In all of your years doing so much stretching, have you been injury free? When I was doing only calisthenics in the 3rd year I developed degenerative tendonosis in shoulder and bicep tendon. I stretched before and after training. But nothing crazy. That injury took me 2 years to recover. I am now about 11 months back . I am using kettle bells, dumbells, and steel clubs. I am getting stronger and it hits every tiny muscle . But just past sunday while doing front swings with light kettle bells my lower bqck got lit up with sharp pains. . Day 3 and am just walking again. Once again I was stretching before and after each session. Coming back I took it slow and careful to build back up. Nutrition is on point and sleep. Still getting snapped up.

[@lhadzyan7300]

Why I sense that a lot of this early pre-Lovecraftian cosmic-horror lore was used rightly into the awesome and pivotal for the main-plot scene of the dark eclipse time on Kentaro Miura´s Berserker manga-comic where a lot of very dark dooming events had happened there!!? There wasn´t a proper King-in-Yellow dude there but still a lot of the dreadfull issues happened about that time!!

[@troyevitt2437]

This was an inspiration to the Season 1 of "True Detective".

[@doktorgriff]

Along with a heavy dose of Thomas Ligotti.

[@SuperBizzle10]

George RR Martin has a city called Carcosa in ASOIF which is in far eastern essos clearly inspired by a king in yellow

[@Watchman70]

This was a great and creepy read.

[@The_Return_of_JoyBoy]

The artwork accompanied with this video is incredible. Whose work is it?

[@larrynorris9450]

This is the most overhyped book I've ever read. The most amazing thing about it is it'll make you feel a level of disappointment you didn't believe possible.

[@kirablackstar6130]

Agreed 💯

[@nicolebogda1482]

It would only be enjoyable w/o the hype about it~ so true!

[@unholysix6883]

My first experience of it was the audiobook version which is fantastic. I think If I had read it it wouldn't have hit the same but around Halloween most years I usually listen to the repairer of reputations. the other story in the collection that I really like and that speaks to a lot of what's happening in the world today is the one about the man who falls in love with a beautiful stranger he sees through the window. I won't spoil any of it. Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it.

[@MrJonathanainsworth]

You know what's not overhyped? A Datura trip.

[@Frootlupe21]

It sounds like “Aura bait” but i can see why. it sounds like it could be really good

[@juanalmaguer6970]

which edition is the best to read "The King in Yellow"?

[@jakoblevantinus9113]

There is a deep-dive annotated version but you can start with a little book of the 4 core stories.

[@lhadzyan7300]

I wonder why this quite awesome creepy scary themes hadn´t been properly released on cinematography or TV or any other audiovisual media ever or that is good known about it in all?!! Maybe it´s too hard to grasp about the vagueness it still holds on though the outlines about The King in Yellow are anyway very nicely build on.

[@LocomotiveThought]

The king in yellow represents the antagonist made manifest by fear through scripture. "You don't know who your enemy is until they are pointed out to you." i.e. racism, homophobia, islamophobia, give the fear a face, a sex, a gender, a race, a nationality & you have a movement. Herd mentality through projection. "You, made terrible choices because of them. Destroy those who would leave you with the consequences of Your actions, let us Judge them, hold them in our contempt. No one was born innocent."

[@fleetcenturion]

What? Nothing about climate change??

[@LocomotiveThought]

@@fleetcenturion that goes without saying.

[@deathbydeviceable]

​@@fleetcenturionwhy save something designed to be destroyed?

[@dfrydendall]

I love this video... what is the name of the music you're using for the background?

[@simplepycodes]

😂 good one. Awesome as always.

[@jawadkhelil5742]

"Vermines" est un film d'horreur de 2023 où un jeune adopte une araignée tropicale et la laisse dans sa chambre, l'araignée se reproduit fait des bébés et très vite l'Immeuble de la cité se retrouve infesté par des araignées géantes. Ah...et oui chose importante que j'ai faillit oublier il y a une séquence au début du film dans le désert Algérien. Double Echec et Maths

[@All_Tomorrows_Parties]

What are the odds you have a link to that image at 2:04? That would be amazing wallpaper.

[@kyleanderson9971]

The Madness is spreading 🃏 🌞

[@themysticgarden4236]

I interesting spin on a turn of a century horror story.

[@dantespimp]

LMAO I just picture all these dark stars eventually complaining to their Yellow Boss, going, 'Hey, why not just bring these fools in in large groups instead? Having to constantly reset the universe and re-enter this realm in this grand spectacular fashion, each time one of these fools wants to meet you, is just exhausting and time-consuming.'

[@MrJonathanainsworth]

Sounds like Datura based fiction.

[@Emperor-Justinius]

Can someone explain what the horrible truth is?

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

"I wear NO MASK...."....🫅

[@StevenDarvill-nv4ez]

Death is not the end. Rejoice

[@jamesreeve5548]

Thank You! Excellent Work as Always!

[@kellzbellz801]

Are these AI generated images where did they come from and what program was used?

[@thisincarnation3735]

"Throughout history the play has surfaced in various forms..." care to provide some proof?

[@troyevitt2437]

There's nothing to prove. Much of our lore is recycled. Recently, elements of this book were in True Detective Season One.

[@thisincarnation3735]

@@troyevitt2437 There is something to prove if someone is going to make claims like that. Provide an example... something. Don't just pull stuff out of your arse and expect people to believe it because you said so.

[@troyevitt2437]

@@thisincarnation3735 There is reference to it on YT on True Detective reaction content, or, if you have Max, It's worth the Season-1 Binge.

[@Ogrematic]

The old saying goes, "If there was evidence, they would prosecute. If there was evidence, the cleaners fucked up."

[@thisincarnation3735]

That may be applicable in some instances, but not all. I don't think this constitutes one of said instances.

[@eddymonies8302]

Couldn’t be worse than what 4chan has already done to most of our minds tbf… Have at it yella boi!

[@pross6525]

Though Fiction how much could possibly be True?

[@KelseyFowler-r5m]

20 gummies?

[@pross6525]

@@KelseyFowler-r5m I have never had gummies

[@joannitaxvi3386]

Proper subtitles?

[@nothinggamer7035]

Le'garde in fear and hunger 3 be like

[@kesselparsecs7841]

Yeah right. Read it, didn't spiral into madness and Love Craft was paid by the word apparently

[@moongirl786]

Lovecraft didn't write the King in Yellow genius...

[@KelseyFowler-r5m]

Dastur Adam B Daniels

[@maxelldenomie6131]

Sounds like a Thomas Ligotte thing ...hope I got the last name right...

[@deathangel7335]

This is a very interesting version of The Play, but the mention of chapters was confusing; plays are not laid out in chapters like a book, they are in Acts and Scenes. Referring to "Chapter V: The Black Stars" for example can cause listeners to think that you are summarizing the short story and poetry collection by Chambers, not the semi-fictitious Play. Assuming that what you are actually doing is presenting your version of The Play? You are rather unclear as to what, specifically, this video is about as there are real-world references mingled with fiction. If it is intended to be a version of The Play, you should re-do this and remove the use of "Chapter" for a more suitable form of reference such as "Act 2, Scene 5: The Black Stars".

[@TyerBob-z6l]

Should i read it

[@12lilacbushes]

Awesome!!

[@Dellaluna13]

The most dangerous occult book? The King in Yellow, not some cursed, antique grimoire? Fair attempt, Mr. Diddy.

[@beam72]

I thought this was about gay water sports

[@user-kq7gi7eh1s]

🤣

[@franklinherrera8573]

Just read the damn story you dont need to hear a guy sound mysterious and make it sound like it has a basis in fact. It just a story written to entertain you. And of course read some Lovecraft and Robert E Howard.

[@Darby-qu6hz]

I'd love to meet him

[@tomsisson660]

Be careful what you wish for. Tom Sisson

[@Left-2-stray]

I most certainly want to check this anceint literature. Thanks for peaking my intrest👊

[@juliancain6128]

5:55 I have seen this place...

[@robertsmiley2207]

I wanna read it 😀😎💛🤓

[@c.ladimore1237]

god d-t can you just do AI voices better? it's not hard! the content might be great, but the stupidly obviously awful AI voice wastes it.

[@wadepitre579]

Pretty boring book but I loved the early ideas especially the part about the building created for people to commit suicide was really interesting

[@goose33]

Is this what they were talking about in true detective season 1

[@kevinzalac8945]

This book was utterly forgettable. But still better than Stephen king

[@TurinTurambarTolkien]

Last month, another one of your videos called "The Book of the DEVIL" "'The most dangerous occult book' from the middle ages". ...I am kind of losing track, here.

[@trickyplays240]

The King in Yellow wears the mask for his or “persons” own sake, the kills and true destroys

[@angec6682]

I’ve coughed up scarier stuff than that

[@Tacko14]

It is somewhat disturbing that this ochre yellow is the same as in the The Village movie. Now who's the good guy? I know what I think, but is it reliable?

[@VincentHurley-fi1gc]

The king in yellow......has hepatitis

[@SonamD.Bhutia]

Is he a Turmeric man? 🤔🤔😄

[@AshtonCoolman]

Modern people have endured so many existential horrors and have seen so much on the internet that this book doesn't phase us anymore. It's just meh now

[@ajbranning722]

Cosmic horror mixed with some demonic propaganda. Spooooooky.

[@ChagrinElectric]

Great book. Might not be what most expect, but that's the point isn't it.

[@daxleone]

I wonder if KZbin will ever have anything that is supernatural reality ... I am tired of fantasy fairytales

[@Darby-qu6hz]

Who says what is true

[@daxleone]

@@Darby-qu6hz Physical evidence says what is true

[@deathbydeviceable]

​@@daxleoneyou keep those physical fairy tales then

[@toryquinton2677]

​@@deathbydeviceableActually yes you do. This is why folklorists are able to trace the origins of myths and fairy tales with a surprising high degree of accuracy. The king in yellow is literary invention. Is nothing more.

[@deathbydeviceable]

@toryquinton2677 even science theories is literacy invention so idk what you're on about

[@priscillawillis1969]

Thanks for posting this fictional story

[@gravit8ed]

lol #occultcarrot gtfo

[@tuomasmattila283]

Every person uses mask to hide his true self..those who are mentally ill can see thrue those masks and i have to say it is curse as it is blessing

[@farpointgamingdirect]

This video is over-hyped BS. Per the Gutenburg Project: "Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali and Hastur from Ambrose Bierce: specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta the Shepherd". There is no strong indication that Chambers was influenced beyond liking the names. For example, Hastur is a god of shepherds in "Haïta the Shepherd", but is implicitly a location in "The Repairer of Reputations", listed alongside the Hyades and Aldebaran.[11] The Mask that the Stranger is instructed to remove but turns out not to exist at all in the excerpt from The King in Yellow play (in Chambers' short story "The Mask") evokes the scene in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" where Prince Prospero demands that the stranger dressed as the Red Death should remove his mask and robes, only to find nothing underneath. Given the recognition of that short story, this might be an inspiration or even a tribute from Chambers to Poe."