Cassilda's Song (epigraph to 'The Mask')
The single most quoted passage in all of Chambers, source of nearly all later Carcosa mythology including True Detective.
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From The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The dream-cosmology of Carcosa, lake Hali, and the Hyades — borrowed in part from Ambrose Bierce — became one of weird fiction's most lasting mythic landscapes.
The Repairer of Reputations, Section I
Hildred's evocation of 'the truth' contained in the play — the names Hastur, Aldones, Cassilda, Camilla.
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