Description
Dr. Amal Robardin, a newly-licensed therapist who recently immigrated to Brooklyn from Beirut, is treating her first patient: Yasmin, who is schizophrenic. The two get off to a rocky start, and as Yasmins night terrors increase and the looming figure at the foot of her bed creeps closer every night, Amal begins to worry that shes out of her depth.
Convinced that what she is experiencing is not a delusion, Yasmin becomes obsessed with Robert Chambers’ The King in Yellow. Messages she finds in the book lead Yasmin to flee her home, seeking answers she can’t find in therapy.
Distraught over Yasmims sudden disappearance, Amal attempts to retrace her patients last stepsand accidentally slips through dimensions, ending up in Carcosa, the King in Yellows realm. Trapped and determined to find her way out, Amal enlists the help of a mysterious guide, but is he a friend or her tormentor?
Author Information
NADIA SHAMMAS is a Palestinian-American writer from Brooklyn, NY. Shes best known for being the co-creator of Squire with Sara Alfageeh, as well as being the creator of CORPUS: Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments. Her work often focuses on identity, memory, and decolonizing genre tropes. When shes not writing, shes trying to perfect her cold brew recipe and win the love of her cats, Lilith and Dash.
MARIE ENGER is a St. Louis-based creator who spends a lot of time listening to loud music in the dark and creating weird stuff. While you wait for Where Black Stars Rise and all that secret stuff they cant talk about yet, you can play their dark occult western TTRPG, Casket Land, read their bootleg-of-a-bootleg, Nosferatu!, or get in the eldritch zone with their super-sad comic, The Bones of This Place.
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