The King in Yellow
©2000 Todd Shearer

...and we stood upon the shore of the lake that was once Sarnath and gazed across the waters.

We said not a word, as I viewed a loss greater than my own in the ruins, but felt the sorrow of all loss upon me.

"Why did you bring me here?" I asked my companion. He said not a word, but pulled the pallid veil from his face and I knew it. He left me beside the waters, as the shoggoth stirred in the depths and I knew insanity...

-from the book of Iod