num_pages: 258
description: Cassilda's Song is a collection of weird fiction and horror stories based on the King in Yellow Mythos created by Robert W. Chambers entirely authored by women. There are no pretenders here. The Daughters of the Yellow Sign each a titan of unmasked fire in their own right have parted the curtains. From Halis deeps and Carcosas gloomy balconies and Styx-black towers come their lamentations and rage and the consequences of intrigues and follies born in Oblivion. Run into their embrace. Their carriages wait to take you from shadowed rooms and cobblestones to The Place Where the Black Stars Hang. The 1895 release of Chambers best-remembered work of weird fiction was salted with nihilism and ennui and ripe with derangement haunting beauty and eerie torments. Poe s influence was present in the core tales and one could easily argue Chambers may have been influenced by the French Decadents and the disquieting transfigurations of the Symbolists. All this and more can be said of the works collected in this anthology. Carcosa accursed and ancient and cloud-misted Lake of Hali are here. The Hyades sing and the cloud waves break in these tales. The authority of Bierce's cosmic horror is here. The talismantic Yellow Sign and the titular hidden King and The Imperial Dynasty of America will influence and alter you as they have the accounts by these writers. Cassilda and other unreliable narrators government-sponsored Lethal Chambers and the many mysteries of the mythical Play are boldly represented in these tributes to Chambers. Have you seen the Yellow Sign? Table of ContentsBlack Stars on Canvas a Reproduction in Acrylic by Damien Angelica WaltersShe Will Be Raised a Queen by E. Catherine ToblerYella by Nicole CushingYellow Bird by Lynda E. RuckerExposure by Helen MarshallJust Beyond Her Dreaming by Mercedes M. YardleyIn the Quad of Project 327 by Chesya BurkeStones Maybe by Ursula PflugLes Fleurs Du Mal by Allyson BirdWhile The Black Stars Burn by Lucy A. SnyderOld Tsah-Hov by Anya MartinThe Neurastheniac by Selena ChambersDancing The Mask by Ann K. SchwaderFamily by Maura McHughPro Patria! by Nadia BulkinHer Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning by E. Catherine Tobler &amp; Damien Angelica WaltersGrave-Worms by Molly TanzerStrange is the Night by S. P. MiskowskiCover illustration by Steve Santiago
language: English
title: Cassilda's Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chamber's King in Yellow Mythos
publisher: Chaosium Inc.