Lovecraft read Chambers' book in early 1927 and was so enchanted by it that he added elements of it to his own creations. The latter two stories also mention Carcosa, Hali, Aldebaran, and the Hyades, along with a " Yellow Sign" and a play called The King in Yellow. In Chambers' The King in Yellow ( 1895), a collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign". Another story in the same collection ("An Inhabitant of Carcosa") referred to the place " Carcosa" and a person "Hali", names which later authors were to associate with Hastur. In Bierce's "Haïta the Shepherd", which appeared in the collection Can Such Things Be?, Hastur is more benevolent than he would later appear in August Derleth's mythos stories. Hastur as he appears in The King in Yellow. Later writers have also adapted Hastur in a variety of tales.Īppearances Hastur in the mythos Lovecraft was inspired by Chambers's stories and briefly mentioned Hastur in The Whisperer in Darkness (1930).
Chambers used the name in his late 1800s stories to represent both a person and a place associated with several stars, including Aldebaran. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" ( 1891) as a benign god of shepherds. Hastur ( The Unspeakable One, The King in Yellow, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Price published in Crypt of Cthulhu #6 "August Derleth Issue", St. Hastur the Unspeakable as he appears in August Derleth's short story "The Gable Window".
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