Question
“The Street of the First Shell” and “The Street of the Four Winds” are among this collection’s last four stories, which are all relatively conventional pieces set in Paris. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1895 collection of weird fiction by Robert Chambers. This collection takes its name from a recurring fictional play that drives readers to madness.
ANSWER: The King in Yellow
[10e] Chambers is often associated with this author, who borrowed story elements like the Yellow Sign in “The Whisperer in Darkness.” This author listed Hastur, who appears in The King in Yellow, as one of the Great Old Ones.
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
[10h] The play The King in Yellow takes place by Lake Hali in an ancient city of this name, also used by Lovecraft. This city first appears in a story by Ambrose Bierce, in which a wandering man realizes he is dead and this city is ruined.
ANSWER: Carcosa [accept An Inhabitant of Carcosa]
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