The Yellow Coronation
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A young artist struggling with poverty and psychosis meets a strange woman who opens the door to an unholy and arcane power. He becomes plagued by supernatural events and visions that tell him his works will change the very course of history, but is it all just in his head? A cosmic horror short-story inspired by Robert Chambers' collection "The King in Yellow".
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