Based on the Robert W. Chambers story The King in Yellow, this expansion introduces the mechanic of the Herald — a special card that permanently alters the game rules.
It was called “The King in Yellow” and at the beginning of this book there were some verses with a note explaining that they came from Cassilda’s song in “The King in Yellow”, Act 1, Scene 2.
In Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), a fin-de-siècle collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign".
The symbol on the cover is the yellow sign from the book The King in Yellow.
Yig appears as a deity in Green Ronin's role-playing game Mutants & Masterminds, alongside references to The King in Yellow, as described in the Book of Magic sourcebook.
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"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.
The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).
The Repairer of Reputations is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933), American artist and writer, author of The King in Yellow