Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

Cassilda’s Song is a collection of weird fiction and horror stories based on the King in Yellow Mythos created by Robert W. Chambers—entirely authored by women. There are no pretenders here. The Daughters of the Yellow Sign, each a titan of unmasked fire in their own right, have parted the curtains. From Hali’s deeps and Carcosa’s gloomy balconies and Styx-black towers, come their lamentations and rage and the consequences of intrigues and follies born in Oblivion. Run into their embrace. Their carriages wait to take you from shadowed rooms and cobblestones to The Place Where the Black Stars Hang.

The 1895 release of Chambers’ best-remembered work of weird fiction was salted with nihilism and ennui, and ripe with derangement, haunting beauty, and eerie torments. Poe’s influence was present in the core tales and one could easily argue Chambers may have been influenced by the French Decadents and the disquieting transfigurations of the Symbolists. All this and more can be said of the works collected in this anthology. Carcosa, accursed and ancient, and cloud-misted Lake of Hali are here. The Hyades sing and the cloud waves break in these tales. The authority of Bierce’s cosmic horror is here. The talismantic Yellow Sign, and the titular ‘hidden’ King, and The Imperial Dynasty of America, will influence and alter you, as they have the accounts by these writers. Cassilda and other unreliable narrators, government-sponsored Lethal Chambers, and the many mysteries of the mythical Play, are boldly represented in these tributes to Chambers.

The contents of this anthology include:

• "Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic" by Damien Angelica Walters
• "She Will Be Raised a Queen" by E. Catherine Tobler
• "Yella" by Nicole Cushing
• "Yellow Bird" by Lynda E. Rucker
• "Exposure" by Helen Marshall
• "Just Beyond Her Dreaming" by Mercedes M. Yardley
• "In the Quad of Project 327" by Chesya Burke
• "Stones, Maybe" by Ursula Pflug
• "Les Fleurs Du Mal" by Allyson Bird
• "While The Black Stars Burn" by Lucy A. Snyder
• "Old Tsah-Hov" by Anya Martin
• "The Neurastheniac" by Selena Chambers
• "Dancing The Mask" by Ann K. Schwader
• "Family" by Maura McHugh
• "Pro Patria!" by Nadia Bulkin
• "Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning" by E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
• "Grave-Worms" by Molly Tanzer
• "Strange is the Night" by S.P. Miskowski

Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul.

Table of Contents:

Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth”

A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts”

Michael Wehunt — “In Canada”

Brian Evenson — “The Second Door”

Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths”

Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin”

Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin House, 1935”

Damien Angelica Walters — “This Unquiet Space”

Sunny Moraine — “We Grope Together, and Avoid Speech”

Brooke Warra — “Heirloom”

Lucy A. Snyder — “That Which Does Not Kill You”

Simon Strantzas — “Doused by Night”

Kaaron Warren — “We Are All Bone Inside”

Lisa L. Hannett — “Outside, a Drifter”

Kristi DeMeester — “The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic”

Scott Nicolay — “When the Blue Sky Breaks”

Craig Laurance Gidney — “Mirror Bias”

Anya Martin — “Boisea trivittata”

Michael Cisco — “Rock n’ Roll Death Squad”

S.P. Miskowski — “Alligator Point”

Jeffrey Thomas — “Stranger in the House”

Christopher Slatsky — “SPARAGMOS”

Richard Gavin — “Banishments”

Michael Griffin — “The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun”

Nadia Bulkin — “Live Through This”

Gemma Files — “Distant Dark Places”

Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan. Trade paperback art by Yves Tourigny.