The Hastur Cycle: 13 Tales That Created and Define Dread Hastur, of the King in Yellow, Nighted Yuggoth, and Dire Carcosa

By Ambrose BierceRamsey CampbellJoseph Payne Brennan, et al.

The stories in this book evoke an evil rarely rivaled in horror writing, representing the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568821921
• ISBN13: 9781568821924
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Chaosium
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

the King in Yellow unmasked

Another of Chaosium's attempts to create order from the chaotic allusional stew that forms the so-called Cthulhu Mythos. This volume takes a look at the roots and branches of Robert W Chambers' story-cycle The King in Yellow, wherein the eponymous play brings madness and doom to those who read it. Like with any analogy the stoires vary in quality, but there are some good ones here. "Repairer of Reputations" is Chambers'...

Have You Found the Yellow Sign?

After playing the D20 adventure, "Death in Freeport," my interest was piqued in the Unspeakable One and the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign. As it turns out, both were inspired by Hastur and the Yellow Sign. So I decided to go to the source and read the original stories that helped craft the mythology of the Great Old One known as Hastur and his crazy book, "The King in Yellow." Briefly, Hastur is both a place and a being...

Fun with the Cthulhoids

Chaosium starts an attempt to make the works of HP Lovecraft and his followers accessible to fans who haven't subscribed to the esoteric fanzines. The series ranges between general anthologies of mythos stories, works by a single author and studies of certain aspects of the mythos. This book is of the 3rd variety and gives us the history of Hastur. We get works by Lovecraft, Derleth, Chambers and others while tracing...

My first Cthulhu Mythos Fiction book, but not my last...

THE HASTUR CYCLE was a very entertaining book of frightening short stories. Some of the stories didn't make sense to me(this may be because I'm just a teenager), but most of them were good. I enjoyed this book immensely, especially Lovecraft's short story "THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS." The book was pretty good.

Excellent contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos

This is Chaosium's first volume of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. The Cthulhu Mythos was created by H.P. Lovecraft in a series of short stories published in the 1920's and 30's. In this mythology, the earth was previously inhabited by alien, "godlike" entities who will return "when the stars are right". This volume tracks the history of writing about one of those entities, Hastur. The book covers early sources of Lovecraft's...