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Story by Karl Edward Wagner included in The Hastur Cycle. A bus plunges down a cliffside, leaving a nameless female prisoner from Coastal State Prison free to start her life again. Swimming across a bay to an unnamed city she finds it looks like it hasn't been developed since the turn of the century. Escaping an unknown, and apparently deformed, assailant , she finds shelter with Mrs Castaigne and her maid Camilla, adopting the name of 'Cassilda Archer' (in part after her therapist, Doctor Archer), as a cover. A daughter, Miss Constance Castaigne is mentioned but is not present, it later being revealed she'd been sent to a hospital with brain fever. Cassilda is engaged as a companion to Mrs Castaigne and is asked to read to her from The King In Yellow , from a copy of the play that used to

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  • The River of Night's Dreaming
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  • Story by Karl Edward Wagner included in The Hastur Cycle. A bus plunges down a cliffside, leaving a nameless female prisoner from Coastal State Prison free to start her life again. Swimming across a bay to an unnamed city she finds it looks like it hasn't been developed since the turn of the century. Escaping an unknown, and apparently deformed, assailant , she finds shelter with Mrs Castaigne and her maid Camilla, adopting the name of 'Cassilda Archer' (in part after her therapist, Doctor Archer), as a cover. A daughter, Miss Constance Castaigne is mentioned but is not present, it later being revealed she'd been sent to a hospital with brain fever. Cassilda is engaged as a companion to Mrs Castaigne and is asked to read to her from The King In Yellow , from a copy of the play that used to
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  • Story by Karl Edward Wagner included in The Hastur Cycle. A bus plunges down a cliffside, leaving a nameless female prisoner from Coastal State Prison free to start her life again. Swimming across a bay to an unnamed city she finds it looks like it hasn't been developed since the turn of the century. Escaping an unknown, and apparently deformed, assailant , she finds shelter with Mrs Castaigne and her maid Camilla, adopting the name of 'Cassilda Archer' (in part after her therapist, Doctor Archer), as a cover. A daughter, Miss Constance Castaigne is mentioned but is not present, it later being revealed she'd been sent to a hospital with brain fever. Cassilda is engaged as a companion to Mrs Castaigne and is asked to read to her from The King In Yellow , from a copy of the play that used to belong to her daughter Constance. which she finds sinful but compelling. As the lines blur between dream, delirium, memory and reality, she is finally forced to make her escape. A final scene with Doctor Archer at the hospital, finding a copy of the King In Yellow, reveals the patient's body has not been found. In the book is written the name 'Constance Castaigne'.
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