Reading The King in Yellow

Mom... I’m insane is that because of that play? oh yeah, lemme check if I accidentally read the fucking play that makes you insane oh fuck THE KING IN YELLOW ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

A hand-drawn four-panel comic shows a child telling their mother they are insane, while the mother checks whether they accidentally read the play that supposedly causes insanity. She discovers The King in Yellow and reacts with horrified realization, referencing the fictional play from Robert W. Chambers’s weird fiction. It is used as an absurd reaction to suggest that something caused someone’s madness. EN: A hand-drawn four-panel comic shows a child telling their mother they are insane, while the mother checks whether they accidentally read the play that supposedly causes insanity. She discovers The King in Yellow and reacts with horrified realization, referencing the fictional play from Robert W. Chambers’s weird fiction. It is used as an absurd reaction to suggest that something caused someone’s madness.

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