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"Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When the blue starlight dies / And all is through." This short poem, an epigraph to "The Yellow Sign," arguably the most memorable tale in Robert W. Chambers\' 1895 collection The King in Yellow, encapsulates in four brief lines the affect that drives cosmic horror: the fearful sense of imminent annihilation. In the four stories JF and Phil discuss in this episode, this affect, which would inspire a thousand works of fiction in the twentieth century, emerges fully formed, dripping with the xanthous milk of Decadence. What\\u2019s more, it is here given a symbol, a face, and a home in the Yellow Sign, the Pallid Mask of the Yellow King, and the lost land of Carcosa. Come one, come all.

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REFERENCES

Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 100 on John Carpenter films
\\nAlgernon Blackwood, \\u201cThe Man Who Found Out\\u201d
\\nSusannah Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
\\nWalter Benjamin, \\u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction\\u201d
\\nAnnie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, Thought Forms
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 140 on \\u201cSpirited Away\\u201d
\\nVladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak
\\nCharles Taylor, A Secular Age
\\nDavid Bentley Hart, \\u201cAngelic Monster\\u201d
\\nM. R. James, Oh, Whistle and I\\u2019ll Come to you my Lad\\u201d
\\nWilliam Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow