{"id":1297,"date":"2021-06-13T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:22:12","slug":"announcing-under-twin-suns-alternate-histories-of-the-yellow-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/announcing-under-twin-suns-alternate-histories-of-the-yellow-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing UNDER TWIN SUNS: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth\u2026\u201d<\/em> –Robert W. Chambers, \u201cThe Repairer of Reputations\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hippocampus Press<\/a>\u00a0and editor\u00a0James Chambers<\/a>\u00a0are excited to announce the all-new anthology,\u00a0Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign<\/em>, is available now for preorder from Hippocampus Press<\/a> and Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring Stories By:<\/em> Marc Abbott \u2022 Linda D. Addison \u2022 Meghan Arcuri \u2022 Greg Chapman \u2022 J.G. Faherty \u2022 Trevor Firetog \u2022 Patrick Freivald \u2022 Carol Gyzander \u2022 Todd Keisling \u2022 John Langan \u2022 Curtis Lawson \u2022 Adrian Ludens \u2022 Lisa Morton \u2022 Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. \u2022 Sarah Read \u2022 Kathleen Scheiner \u2022 Ann K. Schwader \u2022 Darrell Schweitzer \u2022 J. Daniel Stone \u2022 Steven Van Patten \u2022 Tim Waggoner \u2022 Kaaron Warren<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen I first read The King in Yellow<\/em> some twenty-five years ago,\u201d said publisher Derrick Hussey, \u201cI experienced a genuine \u2018kick\u2019 of otherworldliness that I don\u2019t run across very often. It\u2019s a thrill to feel that frisson<\/em> again in the works of these modern writers, and an honor to publish their tales.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert W. Chambers\u2019 classic work of weird fiction, \u201cThe Repairer of Reputations,\u201d introduced the world to \u201cThe King in Yellow,\u201d a play in two acts, banned for its reputed power to drive mad anyone who reads its complete text. \u201cThe Yellow Sign,\u201d used the experiences of an artist and his model to elaborate on the mythos of the Yellow King and the Yellow Sign. In those tales Chambers crafted fascinating glimpses of a cosmos populated by conspiracies, government-sanctioned suicide chambers, haunted artists, premonitions of death, unreliable narrators\u2014and dark, enigmatic occurrences tainted by the alien world of Carcosa, where the King rules in his tattered yellow mantle. In Carcosa, black stars rise and Cassilda and Camilla speak and sing. In Carcosa, eyes peer from within pallid masks to gaze across Lake Hali at the setting of twin suns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I began work on this anthology in the summer of 2019, I never imagined how much would change in the world or how eerily relevant the concept of the Pallid Mask referenced in the King in Yellow stories would become. I\u2019m thrilled to present this collection of amazing, weird stories from a group of supremely talented writers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this anthology, twenty-two authors who found the Yellow Sign, share their harrowing visions of worlds shaped by its influence in stories and poems inspired by Chamber\u2019s foundational works of weird horror. From the personal to the historic, from the macabre to the fantastic, the stories and poems gathered here illuminate new, unexpected realities shaped by the King in Yellow, under the sway of the Yellow Sign, or in the grip of madnesses inspired by their power. What terrifying knowledge and unsettling experiences have these creative souls ushered into our world? What visions do they bring from Carcosa, from beneath the mantle of the Yellow King\u2014from under twin suns<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are especially pleased to include a previously unpublished novella, \u201cless\u2026 light\u2026\u201d by the late Joseph S. Pulver, whose stories and anthologies did so much to help the King in Yellow mythos stand on its own in weird fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth\u2026\u201d –Robert W. Chambers, \u201cThe Repairer of Reputations\u201d Hippocampus Press\u00a0and editor\u00a0James Chambers\u00a0are excited to announce the all-new anthology,\u00a0Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, is available now for … <\/p>\n

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