What do we know about Robert W. Chambers and his strange book, The King in Yellow (1895)? Could this book have influenced Lovecraft’s conception of the Necronomicon? The panelists discuss Chambers’s wide-ranging work and trace his influence on Lovecraft as well as on other writers of supernatural fiction, down to the present day.

Participants: Gary Myers, Joe Pettit, Jr., Joe Pulver, S. T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire