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Yellow King - Absinthe in Carcosa

By: Pelgrane Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Gumshoe RPGs

MSRP old price: $34.95


Product Info

Title
Yellow King - Absinthe in Carcosa
Publisher
Product Line
Genre
Publish Year
2018
Pages
186
Dimensions
8.75x11.25x.5"
NKG Part #
2147793878
MFG. Part #
PELGY06
Type
Hardcover

Description

At the end of the 19th century, an American art student went to Paris, read a play, and lost his grip on reality.

The play was called The King in Yellow.

Having read it, head reeling from absinthe, bedeviled by unseen adversaries, he realized that the alien world it described, Carcosa, had sunk its traces throughout the City of Lights.

As he explored Paris in search of its decadent influence, he created a scrapbook. A guide for himself, and for those who would come after him.

Yoked together from existing travelogues, newspapers, and the disquieting ephemera of the occult tradition, it laid out a skewed portrait of a haunted city.