Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, Francisco Goya and Arnold Böcklin. A play in two acts circulates through Europe; those who finish reading it go mad. Chambers gathered his linked tales around that idea in 1895, invented the Yellow Sign, borrowed lost Carcosa from Ambrose Bierce, and then — having built the vocabulary that Lovecraft and half of modern horror would borrow — turned to writing romances for the rest of his life. The first four stories are why the book endures. Fifty-eight plates by Goya, Redon and others trace the madness the play unleashes, from tribunal and scaffold to coastal village and sun chariot, in paintings made between 1812 and 1918.