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The Truth of Carcosa
| Author: | Jacob Rollinson |
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Union Square & Co., 2026 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Evil books, shadowy corporations, and interdimensional monster collide in this dark, masterful tribute to Robert Chamber's cult classic, The King in Yellow.
In 1984, exiled author Salvatore Archimboldi accepts the help of a psychotherapist to write his new book. He hopes to transform his traumatic memories into literary genius. But the resulting book, The Truth of Carcosa, is pure evil. Horrified, Archimboldi suppresses the book and wills all traces of it, his correspondence, and any copies to be destroyed.
Long after Archimboldi's death, in a chaotic age of resurgent nationalism and violence, one of the only havens for his work is the ALI, the Archive for Literary Investment, where a biographer and his protégée search through Archimboldi's correspondence for clues on the evil manuscript as they attempt to stop unscrupulous firms with their own plans for the manuscript.
Excerpt
M. Carrette's normal composure was gone. He was hurrying, almost tripping over his brogues. I realized he was being pursued--and then I saw his pursuer emerge from behind another wheelie bin some fifty metres away, and I caught my breath.
It was the dancing man. Or something very like him. I saw a figure in black clothes--at this distance I could see that the garment was a suit, worn and dirty, with gaps opening up between the seams--with corpse-white flesh. But the strangest sight was his face: I felt a surreal conviction that the man was wearing a mask--and this might not make sense--of his own face. The features were both bulbous and blank, and if I was asked to describe it afterward, in the form of a photofit or similar, I wouldn't have known where to start. It was an approximation of a face. A photocopy of a printout of a pixilated face.
Copyright © 2026 by Jacob Rollinson
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