Evil books, shadowy corporations, and interdimensional monster collide in this dark, masterful tribute to Robert Chamber's cult classic,The King in Yellow.
Dark, elegant, and relentless,The Truth of Carcosais dossier-horror at its finest--intimate, dangerous, and urgently of now. Rollinson presents a bold, lyrical, and unforgettable tale. -Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author ofChildren of Chicago
In 1984, exiled author Salvatore Archimboldi?accepts?the?help of a psychotherapist to write his new book, hoping to transform his traumatic memories into literary genius. But?the?resulting book,The Truth of Carcosa, is pure evil. Horrified, Archimboldi suppresses?the?book and wills all traces of it, his correspondence, and any copies to be destroyed.
Long after Archimboldi's death, in?a chaotic age of resurgent nationalism and violence, one of?the?only havens for his work is?the?ALI,?the?Archive for Literary Investment, where a biographer and his prot?g?e search through Archimboldis correspondence for clues on?the?evil manuscript as?they attempt to stop?unscrupulous firms?with?their own plans for the manuscript.
Told from the perspective of a madman obsessed withThe Truth of Carcosaand a ragtag group of friends, it becomes clear that this book is more than a bookand that it might be the answer to a bewildering set of questions: Why is the Archive so desperate to preserve Archimboldi's work? Why do so many corporations seem hellbent on seizing any scrap of this mysterious manuscriptand at whatever cost? What are the strange, dancing monsters that appear wherever Archimboldi's work is discovered? And whoor whatis the Yellow King?
Jacob Rollinsonwas born in England in 1984 and has lived and worked in China and the UK. He completed a creative and critical writing PhD at the University of East Anglia, and his fictionlc3
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