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rmOkay, all you avid readers, I need help.
I need actual books that reference books or plays that don't actually exist in our world (but we perhaps wish they did) a la "The Swordsman Whose Name was not Death" from The Privilege of the Sword.
Yes, I'm up to something, although I'm not sure of the shape or viability of it yet.
I need actual books that reference books or plays that don't actually exist in our world (but we perhaps wish they did) a la "The Swordsman Whose Name was not Death" from The Privilege of the Sword.
Yes, I'm up to something, although I'm not sure of the shape or viability of it yet.
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Date: 2006-12-06 05:14 pm (UTC)"The King in Yellow" is a fictional play that supposedly, when read, makes people go mad. Anyone who reads it becomes insane. it originated in the fiction of Chambers, but since then lots of authors have alluded to it. And of course, because it was inspiring to Lovecraft, conspiracies have risen up around it- i.e. the play really exists somewhere. Hee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow#Stories
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Date: 2006-12-06 05:16 pm (UTC)