Carcosa

In early December 1928, a cult lead by Montague Edwards, with the assistance of Alexander Roby somehow brought Carcosa physically to Earth. The city invaded this reality in Scotland, appearing on the shores of Loch Mullardoch which apparently became the lake of Hali.

Carcosa on Earth appears as a gracious city of indeterminate age; there is nothing immediately in evidence to place it past the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.It is laid out around half the shoreline of a calm lake — the other half is lightly forested with firs and birch — elegant buildings rise away up the steepslopes from the water arranged about plazas, avenues, pools, canals, and formal parks and gardens. There is architecture of all kinds here but most of the city has a formal, Italianate feel with white marble bell-towers, ornate relief work, small bridges, columns, red roof tiles, and marble domes.

• Carcosa is wandering, dreamlike city, across the lake of Hali from Yhtill.
• The various versions of “The King in Yellow” all feature Carcosa as an important motif.
• Numerous individuals, locations and even real world enitities are linked to Carcosa.

1. It appeared overnight.
2. One could not tell from looking at it whether the city sat upon the waters of the lake, or beyond them.
3. When the moon arose, the towers of the city appeared behind it, not in front of it.
4. As soon as one looked upon the city, one knew its name.
5. Unknown, but has something to do with the 'mystery of the Hyades'.