The Forbidden Play

From The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The titular play drives readers mad upon reading the second act. Chambers never quotes the full text, only fragments, making it one of literature's most famous unseen artifacts and a forerunner of Lovecraftian dread.
The Mask, epigraph (Cassilda's Song)

The famous lines: 'Along the shore the cloud waves break, / The twin suns sink behind the lake... Strange is the night where black stars rise, / And strange moons circle through the skies, / But stranger still is / Lost Carcosa.'

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The Repairer of Reputations, Section I

Hildred describes first encountering the yellow-bound book and the catastrophe of reading the second act.

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