====== An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd ======

Written by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce|Ambrose Bierce]] in the 1870s and thus predating the stories of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers|Robert W Chambers]], these stories have nothing in them that connects them with the mythos of [[The King in Yellow]] except their use of the names [[Carcosa]] (for a ruined city), [[Hastur]] (for a benign pagan god), [[Hali]] (for a prophet) and [[Haita]] (for a shepherd), all of which are names that appear in either Chambers' or [[Talbot Estus|Talbot Estus']] work.

It is assumed by literary critics that Chambers borrowed the names from Bierce.