How did this book become so influential than “The King in Yellow” is so commonly referenced in cosmic horror shows and movies?

I read it and it completely catfished me. Only the first few stories are even actually horror and the King in Yellow is only referenced in a couple opening lines to some of the stories. After that fully 50% of the book is just love stories about upper class Anglo Americans from New England falling in love with French girls from the rural countryside.

>>212597883 (OP)
Also weirdly like most of the love stories the French girls are massive whores and start sobbing to the New England WASP about how they don’t deserve them because they’re such sluts and the New Englander tells them they don’t care, they love them anyways, and then they embrace. This happened like 3 times back to back when I was expecting Lovecraftian horror it was surreal

dunno man ask /lit/

>>212597883 (OP)
The second half is terrifying because they're French

>>212598328
>I-is that? A French women?!?! AAAHHHH save me Victoria I’m going insane!!!!!

>>212597883 (OP)
A big part of it is that Lovecraft was a fanboy, so all his fanboys found it by proxy.

said she met a KANG

>>212597883 (OP)
Most of the people making those shows and movies have never read it and just know about le spoopy play.

>>212598450
The left buttcheek is twice the size of the right one

I'm writing a script for this movie. Here is a simple example: the land of d'ys is a mythical land where the daughter of the king drowned in a calamity. The american is in the afterlife in the story which subverts the premise of the rest of the book to begin with. This baroque subversion of the premise serves to underscore the decadence of the literature itself in a more rigid structuralist framework. The women in the court of the dragon says 'to think that this too is a ward of God' under the story in which the closing refers to the passage quote 'it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God" equating the narrator to a powerless insect. Don't worry the script will take the audience in mind. It will be like...prometheus meets in the mouth of madness. One of the stories will be a framing story. Now your thread is about television and film.

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Autism, she’s just got one leg placed further than the other

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