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December 10, 2007
Il Re Giallo: interludi
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
- The King in Yellow, Act 1, Scene 2d
David C. Fragale, Emiliano Guarneri and Leonardo Camastra are producing a film interpretation of R.W. Chambers' The King in Yellow; quite probably the creepiest stories I have ever read. The King in Yellow: Interludes looks promising. These trailers and production art suggest a J-horror approach to material that might otherwise be too difficult to capture on film.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 10, 2007 06:24 AM
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Awesome. I have an old copy of The King In Yellow, and have always wondered how someone might translate that into film.
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at December 10, 2007 12:25 PM
I hope they complete the project; there are a lot of Mythos trailers out there, the film equivalent of vapourware. The J-horror approach seems so obvious in retrospect. Dark Water and Ringu have the same mounting, anticipatory horror R.W. Chambers' writing produces. There is some Clive Barker influence in the production art but that too seems a logical fit.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 10, 2007 12:37 PM
Most excellent. Also happy that the Wiki article mentions the Lawrence Watt Evans trilogy (THe Lords of Dus). I emailed him awhile back and he responded in kind and even suggested he may consider an 4th book at some point soon.
Posted by: Gorthos at December 10, 2007 01:37 PM
AND for those such as I who find radio tedious most of the time, here is a decent link to the King In Yellow free audio version.. librivox is great for free audio books, however quality is sometimes iffy..
http://librivox.org/king-in-yellow-by-robert-w-chambers/
Posted by: Gorthos at December 10, 2007 03:59 PM
Ooh... sweet...
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 10, 2007 04:18 PM
I listened to the CBS Suspense version of "The Yellow Wallpaper" last night; worth a listen as an inspiration for R.W. Chambers and for the spark-plug ads... It is linked through the story's Wikipedia entry:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It took merely two days to write, and was at first rejected in 1891 by a Boston physician who made a protest in The Transcript. He claimed such a story ought not to be written, since it was enough to drive anyone mad to read it.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 10, 2007 04:20 PM
Excellent news! I first came across The King in Yellow in boardgame form (an expansion for the wonderful Arkham Horror game), then read the story. (It took a few changes to bring it to Arkham, but it fit rather well in the end.)
Posted by: Alfred at December 11, 2007 02:55 AM