Lisa Bonse

When I read “The King in Yellow” a few years ago for the first time, I closed the book with a shrug. It was said to be an important part of cosmic horror, but I didn’t find it to be all that spooky. But then, a few years later, when I was searching for a text for my project, I remembered this book for some reason. Because a not-so-unimportant reason why my first read of this book was so unimpressive was because of the rather loveless design of the whole thing. I felt like, “there’s room for improvement”. So I set myself the following standard for this project: to support the most important short stories that define the myth of the King in Yellow with strong illustrations, and combine it all with a modern all-over design. I started by choosing the most important short stories of the book and created a layout. Every story has a double-page illustration in color, and every chapter has black and white single pages distributed over the pages, proportionate to the text volume. It also features small vignettes here and there.