Venusian Hell

"Venusian Hell" is a short Yellow Mythos story by American author Brian Barr. The third instalment in his King in Yellow series, it was first published in the J. Ellington Ashton Press anthology Doorway to Death in September 2015.
==Synopsis==
When her former crewmates begin to mysteriously die, grounded astronaut Alicia Meadows begins to look into the government coverup of derelict alien spacecraft which they had discovered on their last mission. Discovering a link between the strange symbol etched into the craft and an ancient play called The King in Yellow, she manages to track down a copy. After reading it, Alicia embarks on a murder spree across America, slowly paving the way for her new master to establish a hold on Earth.
==Publication History==
Since its first publication in 2015, "Venusian Hell" has also appeared in an independently-published chapbook to which it lends its name (2019) and the collection Brian Barr's King in Yellow (2019).
Category:Brian Barr works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works