The Hastur Cycle

The Hastur Cycle

Details

Publisher: Oakland, CA: Chaosium Inc., 1993

Page Count: 313 p.

Author(s): Robert M. Price, editor

Artist(s): Dreyfus, cover and chapter decorations

Summary

13 tales that created and define dread Hastur, the King in Yellow, nighted Yuggoth, and dire Carcosa.

Contents

• "Introduction (The Mythology of Hastur)", Robert M. Price
• "Haita the Shepherd", Ambrose Bierce
• "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", Ambrose Bierce
• "The Repairer of Reputations", Robert W. Chambers
• "The Yellow Sign", Robert W. Chambers
• "The River of Night's Dreaming", Karl Edward Wagner
• "More Light", James Blish
• "The Novel of the Black Seal", Arthur Machen
• "The Whisperer in Darkness", H. P. Lovecraft
• "Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley", Richard A. Lupoff
• "The Mine on Yuggoth", Ramsey Campbell
• "Planetfall on Yuggoth", James Wade
• "The Return of Hastur", August Derleth
• "Tatters of the King", Lin Carter
  • "Litany to Hastur"
    • "XX. Black Lotus"
    • "XXI. The Unspeakable"
    • "XXII. Carcosa"
    • "XXIII The Candidate"
  • "Carcosa Story about Hali"
  • "The King in Yellow: A Tragedy in Verse" (after James Blish)

Comments / Trivia

First edition. Chaosium publication 6001. ISBN 0-56882-009-7.

The first of their Call of Cthulhu Fiction line. The first of the Cthulhu Cycle Books series.