The King in Yellow: an event in May threatens to see this monster stalk ever deeper into our world and human consciousness

May 17th to 19th 2013

An event that promises to change your world…

The King in Yellow – a book – a play – a corruptive memetic infection

It all started in 1891 with Ambrose Bierce and his short story “An Inhabitant of Carcosa”.  Then in 1893 Bierce released “Haïta the Shepherd”. Another two years later, Robert W. Chambers pulled Hastur and Carcosa together, amongst other iconic memes, with his collection of short stories called, aptly enough, The King in Yellow.  Perhaps this malign entity has always been with us – festering in the  oral traditions of storytelling passed down through generations? Or maybe, this terrible phenomenon was somehow invoked within the Victorian period?  Were Bierce and Chamers ever associated with Orbis Tertius and the legend of Tlön?

Regardless of the beginnings, the King in Yellow is now riding the wireless carrier signals, streaming through space (and time) on satellite feeds and gradually, incessantly, corrupting the ideas and thought-patterns of every single mind it touches.

Enter stage left: the folks of Wicked Faire. Builders of unique and unusual shows for unique and unusual people. They are attending this year’s “The Steampunk World’s Fair” and hosting an event within it called the Goblin Market.

Goblin Market – photo John De Cristofaro – all rights reserved

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The Goblin Market presents The King in Yellow: the darker side of Victoriana

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Goblin Market – photo John De Cristofaro – all rights reserved

Seek the darkness and ye shall find a light that burns and blinds until all that is left is the blackness of a world bereft of stars and a Sun that fills the sky with boiling shadows.
- Unknown prophecy quoted by Augustus Northcutt.

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If you wish to hurl yourself from the cliff of sanity, clawing at the smoke-like tendrils of madness on your downward plunge in the mistaken belief that chaos will bring about your salvation, then get yourself along to Piscataway, in New Jersey. The rather innocuous sounding Radisson Hotel Piscataway. But then the Dealey Plaza in Dallas was just an innocuous sounding  place until the assassination of John F Kennedy shifted the tilt of the world and flung our Fates in a new direction.

The Goblin Market is an interactive, exhibition and theatre event that deals with a darker and fictional interpretation of what we refer to as Victoriana (1830-1900)  blending surrealistic themes within a historical context.

Within this niche, tucked away in the blinding stage lamps of an unfolding performance, you’ll find a festering boil of corruption waiting to burst upon your senses.

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There is a play spoken of behind bookshelves, in hissed whispers, against grainy tapestries, and always behind closed doors. They say it is rumored to be cursed with the very truths of both tragedy and devastation. One might even promise that you will find yourself mad by the second act while others will promise that a few of you may never yet return from whence you came. The play beckons you in ways we dare not describe as … not even we can understand it.

But do not fear, gentle patrons, and those with spirits both curious and in need of our delicate mending in offering our wares, curios, and mysteries at the Goblin Market stalls… the first act promises to excite your minds and tantalize your natures all while narrated by the delicate Camilla and Cassilda, our loveliest performers. You will be delighted and you will be entertained, of that we are certain.

But there yet remains the second act… and with it, dear patrons, the evening will go on… but we promise nothing of who you were as an audience member will be the same as it was before.

Your curiosity is our boon and with it, in our deepest inclinations, we bring to you…

The King in Yellow.

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The event is taking place within the Goblin Market, part of The Steampunk World’s Fair being held May 17th to 19th 2013, at the Radisson Hotel Piscataway, 21 Kingsbridge Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854-3920

You can purchase tickets here:

http://steampunkworldsfair.com/?cat=21

Steampunk Girl – photo John De Cristofaro – all rights reserved

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Mythos music for a cyberpunk setting ¦ Mark Van Hoen – discordant ambient industrial electro

Mark Van Hoen – click for full size

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Some of you may already know of Mark Van Hoen. I’ve only just discovered him; I feel like I’ve stumbled through an abandoned chemical plant, walls daubed in sinister graffiti, into a subterranean chamber full of lurid coloured gemstones that radiate sonic pleasures. The man is a highly gifted musician travelling a fairly lonely and remote path through the musical landscape.  There’s an audible starting point, carried signals of a distant shore – the 1970s and early 80s – a musical groundwork that strikes chords of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosy.  You can see a route that wanders near to Eno, Aphex and Boards of Canada.  But van Hoen is his own beast. The Crowley of Ambient Industrial Electronica.

This track – Look in my Eyes – captures the essence of modern Mythos. The fusion of raw, articulated sounds, repeating and overlapping into a symphony of trance capable of transporting your conscious mind to the Ancients. Great video too. The visual fragments from a sanity-blasted mind that’s about to free-fall from this reality into the Outer Chaos. Beyond the Quantisphere.

Look Into My Eyes – Mark Van Hoen (Locust)

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British born, he now lives and operates out of Brooklyn New York.  Location of H.P.Lovecraft’s Horror At Red Hook tale.

There’s a fantastic selection of tracks to stream and listen to on Mark van Hoen’s soundcloud page. They provide a sample of works from 1982 to 2011.  Some are much less Mythos, straining towards melodic – even bordering on retrospective 1960s psychedelic sound or mid-90s dance scene.  Others are simply wonderful and edgy.  They all highlight a broad range of serious talent.  You should check it out. Click image below.

Mark Van Hoen aka Locust on Soundcloud

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Relevant Links:

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Van_Hoen 
  
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Zombie apocalypse today: Miami man goes insane and eats another man’s face off

I thought this was a joke but it’s for real. Last Saturday, in Miami, police found a naked maniac lying on the ground chewing the face off a victim – who was still alive. The victim apparently lost his nose, eyeballs and lower face in the gruesome attack.

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Surveillance cameras capture the moment a police officer arrives on the scene; startled by what he sees, the officer draws his automatic, commands the zombie maniac to desist and then (apparently) shot him once.  It rapidly became apparent that lethal force was required and it took up to four shots to kill the man.

The surveillance video is now circulating via the web. On it, its possible to see both men lying nude and partially obscured by the MetroMover track. One man can be seen writhing, his legs twisting and kicking periodically, either in shock or in pain.

There are suggestions that the attack was the result of bad LSD. There are also rumours of similar attacks in a recent time period. So bad drugs “could” be the cause. Alternatively, I thinking, meteorite carrying alien bacteria that’s even now crawling into the brains of random folks – this is the start of the apocalypse. Not quite Yellow Dawn though.  Alternatively, it could a syndrome similar to the 1980′s film Street Trash. An unscrupulous liquor store owner finds a crate of some vile potent concoction and flogs it cheap to the local bums. With gory consequences.

 

 

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