A teenage girl is forced into marriage. The director of a weapons project tries desperately to prepare a bioweapon that may defeat the wave of mass insanity spreading across the globe under a strange Yellow Sign. And an entity begins to hatch, to develop, and to prepare for battle. Three storylines, reverberating with one another through time and through realities, entwine to form this masterful novella from Joe Koch. This was one I was excited to read even before I realised it fit into the 'mythos' originating with Robert Chambers' King in Yellow stories, one I've always found evocative and fascinating. But rest assured that this novella doesn't just retread familiar ground - instead taking the familiar imagery of the Yellow Sign, the King (or sometimes Queen) in Yellow, and Carcosa as inspiration for something as unique as it is powerful. The strength of Koch's work is in recognising that a horror based on dreams and nightmares is at its strongest when manifes
Discussion of horror and whatever else takes my fancy.