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The Hastur Cycle

Tales of Hastur, the King in Yellow, and Carcosa

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The Antarktos Cycle Arkham Tales Atomic-Age Cthulhu (UPCOMING) The Book of Eibon The Complete Pegana Eldritch Chrome Extreme Planets Frontier Cthulhu The Hastur Cycle The Ithaqua Cycle A Long Way Home Madness on the Orient Express (UPCOMING) The Necronomicon Once Upon an Apocalypse (UPCOMING) Singers of Strange Songs Song of Cthulhu Steampunk Cthulhu (UPCOMING) The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson TalesSample Out of Innsmouth file The Tsathoggua Cycle Undead & Unbound

R. W. Chambers’ The Yellow Sign (his complete weird fiction)

Arthur Machen’s The Three Impostors & Other Tales Arthur Machen’s The White People & Other Tales Arthur Machen’s The Terror & Other Tales

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The Hastur Cycle Second Revised Edition

Tales That Created and Defined Dread Hastur, the King in Yellow, Nighted Yuggoth, and Dire Carcosa

H. P. LOVECRAFT AMBROSE BIERCE JAMES BLISH JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN RAMSEY CAMPBELL LIN CARTER ROBERT W. CHAMBERS AUGUST DERLETH RICHARD A. LUPOFF ARTHUR MACHEN JAMES WADE SampleKARL EDWARD WfileAGNER

SELECTED AND EDITED BY ROBERT M. PRICE COVER ART BY VICTOR MANUEL LEZA MORENO INTERIOR ART BY EARL GEIER

A Chaosium Book 2014 The Hastur Cycle is published by Chaosium Inc. This book is copyrighted as a whole by Chaosium, Inc., ©1997, 2006, 2014; all rights reserved. “Carcosa” ©1981 by Richard L. Tierney; appers by permisison of the author. “The River of Night’s Dreaming” ©1981 by Stuart David Schiff for Whispers III; appears by permission of the author. “More Light” ©1970 by James Blish; reprinted by per- mission of the author’s estate. “Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley” ©1982 by Mercury Press, Inc.; appears by permission of the author. “The Mine on Yuggoth” ©1964 by Ramsey Campbell; appears by permission of the author. “Planetfall on Yuggoth” ©1973 by Meade and Penny Frierson; appears by permission of Meade Frierson. “The Return of Hastur” ©1993 by April R. Derleth and Walden W. Derleth; reprinted by permission of Arkham House Publishers, Inc. “The Feaster from Afar” ©1976 by Edward P. Berglund for The Disciples of Cthulhu; appears here by permission of Susanne Thomas, agent for the estate of Joseph Payne Brennan. “Litany to Hastur” ©1965 by The Terminus, Owlswick & Fort Mudge Electrick Street Railway Gazette, “Carcosa Story about Hastur” ©1989 by Charnel House Publishers, and “The King in Yellow: A Tragedy in Verse” ©1993 by Robert M. Price; appear by permission of Robert M. Price, agent for the estate of Lin Carter. Cover art by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno. Interior art by Earl Geier. The Yellow Sign symbol by Kevin Ross. Cover design and layout by Charlie Krank. Editing and inte- rior layout by Janice Sellers. Editor-in-chief Lynn Willis. Proofreading by James Naureckas and Tod Briggs. Similarities between characters in this book and persons living or dead are entirely coincidental. The reproduction of material fromSample within this book file for the purposes of personal or corporate profit, by photographic, digital, or other methods of electronic storage and retrieval, is prohibited. Please address questions and comments concerning this book, as well as requests for free notices of Chaosium publications, by mail to Chaosium, Inc., 22568 Mission Blvd. #423, Hayward CA, U.S.A. Also visit our web page at: www.chaosium.com

SECOND EDITION 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Chaosium Publication 6020 Originally published in February 1997 Revised 2006, 2014 ISBN-10: 1568821921 ISBN-13: 9781568821924 Printed in the USA Contents

INTRODUCTION Robert M. Price ...... vii

HAÏTA THE SHEPHERD Ambrose Bierce...... 1

AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA Ambrose Bierce ...... 7

THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS Robert W. Chambers ...... 11

THE YELLOW SIGN Robert W. Chambers ...... 38

THE RIVER OF NIGHT’S DREAMING Karl Edward Wagner ...... 54

MORE LIGHT James Blish ...... 84

THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL Arthur Machen ...... 113

THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS H. P. Lovecraft ...... 145 DOCUMENTS IN THE CASESample OF ELIZABETH AfileKELEY Richard A. Lupoff ....199 THE MINE ON YUGGOTH Ramsey Campbell...... 233

PLANETFALL ON YUGGOTH James Wade ...... 244

THE RETURN OF HASTUR August Derleth ...... 248

THE FEASTER FROM AFAR Joseph Payne Brennan...... 271

TATTERS OF THE KING Lin Carter ...... 282 This collection is gratefully dedicated to the memory of Fritz Lieber, now traveling through hyperspace with Brown Jenkin.

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