Recreations of The King in Yellow play
The King in Yellow
by Thom Ryng
Published 28th December 2005
Goodreads Description: Between the covers of this small, unassuming book lies a tale one hundred years in the making. Banned by the governments of Europe upon its publication, burned by the zealots of religion and sanity, its very name only whispered in the shadows by decadent artists: THE KING IN YELLOW, a play for the damned and the lost.
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Le Roi en Jaune
by Simon Butcher-Jones (Thomas De Castaigne)
Published 21st September 2015
Goodreads Description: The original French text of the play, Le Roi en Jaune THE KING IN YELLOW, with full english translation, introduction and essays.
Note this is the play, not the text of the short stories referring to it by Robert W. Chambers.
The modern reconstruction, derives from the French text of 1893 by Thomas de Castigne.
(For the avoidance of doubt, both the French and English texts are by Simon Bucher-Jones, no original play exists: this volume is not cursed, nor is it an item of occult power.)
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the king in yellow
by Christopher Lamere (presumed)
Published Approx. 26th August 2017
Notes: This is a PDF file I found, though I'm still trying to trace its origins. I apparently didn't record where I found it, but I think it may have just come up in internet search results. The author name and date are assumed based on a comment in the file, but no official attribution is given. I'm unsure of the copyright law around re-uploading it to the internet directly, but you can contact me for more information.
The King in Yellow: A Tragedy in Two Acts
by Reddit user u/Dixiklo9000; credited as Charles Roul & Dorothy W. Marlow
Published 27th July 2023
Notes: u/Dixiklo9000 shared their version of the play to r/Lovecraft for use in Call of Cthulhu (TTRPG) campaigns. In 2024, a formatted PDF was uploaded on Google Drive. The comments include their interpretation of mythos concepts and more information.
The King in Yellow (Act 1)
by C. W. Scott
Published Approx. October 2024
Website Description: The King in Yellow is a two-act play, a gothic fantasy, penned at an unknown time by an unknown author. Details of the plot and themes are obscure. It was thought lost in the fire that consumed the theatre on the night of its first and only public recital. It is said to be cursed.
We have obtained the sole surviving manuscript of this sinister text, and we will not let urban legends of insanity, possession, and eldritch gods get in the way of a good show.
Preparations have been made. We are ready. Will you be witness?
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The King in Yellow: A Play in Three Acts
by John M. Polk
Published 27th March 2025
Amazon Description: The King in Yellow emerges from the annals of literary and historical obscurity as a dramatic artifact of unparalleled disquiet. This play, its origins untraced, defies conventional authorship; no scribe claims its creation, though conjectures range from medieval heresies to the audacious hypothesis of diabolical provenance—Heinrich Voss’s suppressed 1843 treatise daringly ascribes it to Satan himself. Archival fragments link it to calamities—a razed 17th-century theater, a Viennese troupe’s vanishing, a London circle of poets found lifeless—each marked by the enigmatic Yellow Sign. Presented in three acts, its seductive first lures, its second distorts, and its third, where extant, precipitates an unmaking of reason. This edition, prefaced with a scholarly caution, catalogs its mysteries without resolution, urging readers to halt at Act I’s close. For the academic, it poses a riddle; for the unwary, a peril. Engage this text not as entertainment, but as a relic of dread, its influence a subject of grim fascination and peril.
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