The King in Yellow Tarot Deck

Thought to cause insanity and madness in those who read it, the play The King in Yellow has haunted the imagination and hopes of humanity like a dirge since its first appearance in 1895. But among the fortune-tellers of Europe, the play was not the beginning of something new but the culmination of something old: the King in Yellow Tarot, a legendary deck that had been the subject of rumours for at least two hundred years before the play's publication.