There is a *lot* we had to leave out of this video. Like, a ton. If you want a more in-depth interpretation of the play itself and the symbols Chambers invoked for it, definitely check out the extended version on Nebula! You can get access to it for free with a curiosity stream subscription, which is only $15 per YEAR (like $2 a month or something, it's ridiculously cheap): curiositystream.com/talefoundry For those of you who watched the longer version, what'd you think of the whole "the death of the land of lost souls" thing? Did it inspire you in any way?

As someone who has read the story, here's a little known fact. The King In Yellow isn't merely a king. He is a jester too, an artist. If you look at the original book cover up close you will see he does not just wear a hood, but a hood that is in fact a jester's cap. When I had this pointed out to me I was shocked!

HP Lovecraft didn't intend for all his gods to just look like squidpeople. They're much stranger than that.

In my upper level literature class in college, my professor told me, "No matter what you write and whatever you strive to say, when you release it to the reader, it becomes theirs and means what they think it does."

The thing that bothers me about the King in Yellow, is that once you know about him, he knows about you and becomes a part of the way you think. It cannot be undone, and you will never truly be alone again.

The King In Yellow, the existential dread that taints even those that are unaware of its existence. Once it was released into our world, it threw a fog over everything.

"Love your words enough to choose them well". Probably the best writing advice I have ever received.

The idea that the King in Yellow being the embodiment of the idea that someone’s words can affect other people for better or worse is so interesting! At least that’s how I interpret it. Someone succumbing to false information is basically how the Yellow King “gets you”

I think you should reread the Mask. It's also one of my favorite short stories, but it's incredibly sinister when you understand what is actually happening. Boris didn't just learn how to turn things to stone from reading the King in Yellow, he also learned how to make a love potion. Turning things to stone is a metaphor for what Boris is doing to Alec and Genevieve. It's implied that he does it just before Part 1 - that's when he first shows Alec the chemistry and when Genevieve starts acting out of character by kissing Boris instead of Alec. Alec and Genevieve really did love each other. The "mask" is the love potion overpowering their true feelings for each other. Genevieve doesn't fall into the pool, she throws herself in because the effect may be wearing off and she is aware of the truth on some level. Boris says that he was drugging Genny to make her sleep because "she had been quite out of her mind". She is clutching her breast in sculpture form aka her heart, and Boris shoots himself in the heart in the end.

"All the whos down in whoville, the tall and the small were singing to him to which they were inthralled. Their songs they did sing, their voices did bellow and their sanity melted away before the king in yellow."

"The very act of writing [fiction] invites an existential threat beyond that of any leviathan." - The Mystagogue of Mundanity (unpublished short story a friend from high school wrote. One of the few lines I remember.)

I love The King in Yellow, because it feels like the wasn't supposed to originally be part of the character's stories in the book. Most of the stories start off like the events of a relatively normal life, albeit sometimes having a strange undercurrent, but then the play comes in like a rogue star into a solar system and warps it beyond recognition.

"This story will ruin your mind" *me, who physically couldn't get out of bed for an hour this morning thanks to a combo of exhaustion and depression:* You can't break what's already broken.

Also, the Hanged King and Scarlet King from the SCP universe are both influenced by The King in Yellow. Very interesting reads as well. They're very intertwined with other SCPs and it's a great way to lose yourself in a rabbit hole

The King in Yellow is such a cool concept that can be taken in so many ways, and I'm such a nerd for it

I honestly love that while all of the entities are supposed to be mysterious and unexplainable monstrosities that’d shatter your mind, the king in yellow is the one who best fits the bill. He is a concept you can’t fully grasp. He is, and you know it, yet you can’t put your finger on what exactly he actually is. It feels cosmic, beautiful. Everyone gives him their own shade of yellow and that’s exactly how it should be.

9:22-9:44 I’m impressed by how much expression is shown with that gaze! Not to mention the inversion of colors make the eyes look like your staring into a void. Such a small segment, yet that stare gave me chills!

My favorite thing about the King in Yellow is how interpretable it is. It has these beautiful elements and imagery, we get these hints of names and figures, and you are allowed to puzzle piece these bits together as you feel. August Dereleth, professional "missing the pointer", added it to his version of the mythos by reskinning Cthulhu as Hastur (This is where you get KiY as a big scary tentacle monster.) Others have reinterpreted the play as films or paintings, others like Bliss's "More Light" try to recreate the play and explain why it has this mental effect. You can really ascribe any effects or themes you want, because the book just gives you these bits of pieces to chew on however you feel like, which makes it endlessly fascinating.

You forgot to mention that in the Repairer of Reputations the story is told from an unreliable narrator who has suffered a traumatic brain injury after a fall from a horse. You realize halfway through the story that he’s insane when he goes into detail about wearing a crown he took out of a safe and another character walks into his room and asks him why he is balancing a tin of biscuits on his head. I believe he also talks about “lethal chambers” or suicide booths that are probably just phone booths.

I think it all just represents the horrifying power of art. Stories and art were with us since the dawn of cave drawings. It's in our very DNA to be influenced through the arts I think. It's a force.

Oh my gosh. That “into the hands of a living god” line is genius. It’s a direct reference to a bible verse about falling under judgement after death - not into a place like hell, but the person of God. This reference would have been clear to the people of this day (it was deeply overused, culturally), making it VERY CLEAR that the king in yellow has replaced whatever came before. Or maybe always was what came before. It’s a brilliant reference, and in cultural context, deeply scary. I love it.

One thing no one ever talks about when gushing about the book (but this video actually mentions it!) is that only a few stories in the book could be classified as horrror and mention the King in Yellow. Most of the stories bafflingly veer from cosmic horror into run-of-the-mill melodramatic turn-of-the-century retellings of the bohemian love lives of artists and students, complete with lots of fainting and flowers and such, without any hint of horror. I was baffled by this sudden turn and quietly erased it from my memory since.

Not entirely unrelated but a fun story nonetheless; but a friend of mine once convinced my group to play a “Romeo & Juliet Tabletop”, where we would play original characters who could influence the story. Needless to say, we were actually playing a session of Cthulhu Dark, with Romeo & Juliet skinned over it to fool us. And we only figured it out when Romeo’s play “Ode to Juliet” had the lead donning a pallid mask and yellow robe. Biggest swerve I never saw coming by far. Edit: almost three years later and this comment is still insanely active compared to the usual stuff I drop. Just wanted to make an addendum here to continue to appreciate those that give kind words to one of my best friends, it’s a huge confidence boost to him.

its kinda weird how accurate the representation the king in yellow has in the dating sim game "sucker for love:first date" highly recommend it if you are into HP lovecraft stuff pretty funny with a lot of refrences with both comedy/horror elements as you would think a love sim for comisc horror would be.

Horror babble has an amazing audiobook version here on KZfaq, sometimes it’s easier listening than reading. They also have a 22 hour long audiobook of the Cthulhu mythos. One of the best channels ever.

It's seems to me that the "King in Yellow" is the metaphorical/physical representation of Idealism. An ideal is something that is fabricated in the mind seperate from reality, it manifests unto your deepest fears and desires, it gives you hope in your own metaphysical hell. It is until you no longer have a grasp on the material world, the ideals you've placed upon yourself overwhelm you and destroy your identity. A death unseen in a place impossible to conceive.

I've always interpreted the King in Yellow as living embodiment of The Artist's obsession. It works somewhat, and probably because it always gave me Hellraiser vibes.

When you open the gateway to the abyss, you don’t control who comes back through it with you. Be careful the gates you open. Both mentally and spiritually. The abyss always stares back.

This was my first time watching one of your videos and I loved every moment of it. Thank you and I look forward to listening to your old and new videos!

I first encountered The Yellow Sign more than 40 years ago in an anthology and then read the rest. The Yellow Sign is still my favorite. One of the interesting facts is about Chambers himself. Apparently he was at one time one of the most popular authors in America with dozens of romances in print. Someone dubbed him, not necessarily as a compliment, The Shopgirls’ Scheherazade. Now all those other books are gone but The King in Yellow is still there. Maybe that is the message.

Even in the original book it is never depicted clearly how The King in Yellow looks, only some reactions from people around him when he takes off his mask. One of the best horror books out there.

This is very obviously the main inspiration for The Hanged King's Tragedy. I love it when I learn stuff that ties into other stuff I like

Reading the King in Yellow made me feel like I was going insane. Truly amazing

"this story will ruin your mind." *Me with an already ruined mind.* "Challenge accepted."

What if the 'yellow king' was just a metaphor for the power that lies in the words written in yellowed pages of books of literature, 'the king of arts'.

I heard about The King in Yellow in the game called Sucker for Love, didn't think much about it, on if It was based on anything actually or not, and gotta say I'm glad this showed up in my recommended.

Didn't notice this until I went back to your old videos, but your voice has gotten a lot smoother/softer in newer videos

It's curious to think that Chambers had a long and lucrative career as a writer of romantic literature, yet almost all of his literary reputation today derives from those four stories.

Hastur is definitely a Alien like, multidimensional demon. He/she/it preys on artist types. It exists on the edges of reality. It enjoys driving the artist types mad. Somewhat like a more prejudice Nyarlethotep. Potentially even Nyarlethotep, A theory states that Nyar is actually a vast majority of minor gods due to his shapeshifting ability. Maybe, maybe not. We will never know.

I haven’t even watched a second of the video yet and I’m leaving a like. Just seeing the King in Yellow pop up on my feed flooded me with a wave of nostalgia to the best Delta Green campaign my old tabletop group played 15 years ago.

The game "Signalis" has this book in it and I just realized it is a real book. Hopefully this video helps me understand WTH happened in that game.

I just read The King in Yellow myself not too long ago. The first four stories are phenomenal, though you need to think deeply about them to truly understand them. At least I now feel comfortable using the King in Yellow and Hastur in my stories in the future (like Stephen King did with his story Gramma).

The idea that the author might not have had a choice to write about the play!!!!! Omg I loved that.

I always hought that 1980s movie The Mouth of Madness with Sam Neill was based off of this part of H.P. Lovecraft's work. The whole notorious story that grabs hold of people like a virus thing sounds like the King in Yellow. However, there's other things Lovecraftian about it, too. Like the fact that the story drives its "fans" to madness and some even start looking different. the more you read, the more you transform into something...other. I also love the part where the missing author that Sam Neill's character is looking for is actually the one causing all the trouble, and not in a "oh, let's pull a publicity stunt about going missing, but it's all fake to sell more copies of my latest book," way.

Just came across this channel. Probably the first time I've subscribed midway through the first video, as far as I can recall. Keep up the good work :)

The concept reminds me of a rather dangerous pitfall of fiction. Too often, I find myself enraptured by it, so fascinated by these dreamt worlds and their countless wonders that I begin to resent the reality in which I myself reside. I spend too many hours wishing to escape into these realms of endless novelty and curiosity, often to my own personal detriment. In a way, just like the titular play, fiction can take hold of you and encroach upon your own reality. We've filled shelves upon shelves upon shelves with all the things we can never have, of all the places we'll never visit, of all the people we'll never meet. Of all the happiness we'll never feel.

I based a dark god in my D&D campaigns on The King in Yellow. Proper non-Hastur King in Yellow.

The King in Yellow is my favorite Eldritch God. I recently evoked him in my D&D campaign as an encounter for my players to face. It was creepy, and elegant, and deadly. A lot of fun.

To understand the King in Yellow you should also read 'An inhabitan of Carcosa' and 'Haita the Shepherd' by Ambrose Bierce, which inspired Robert W. Chambers for his King in Yellow. Hatur the good God of Shepherds is mentioned there the first time and also the dead city of Carcosa, what's really a city of the dead on a Planet far away, over which scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill (the land were Corcosa is the capitol of) forever. Yellow is a bright color and symbolizes light and goodness. Yellow is an ephemeral hue because it is very easy to "contaminate" with minute amounts of other colors. Possibly that's why he stood for the instability of the mind at the time of Van Gogh (that's why Robert W. Chambers' book 'The King in Yellow' drives the people who read it crazy). Greenish or brownish - "muddy" yellow tones therefore stand for untruth, for envy, resentment, betrayal and for insanity. So Ythill (the land of the dead) must always be hidden (seperated from the land of the living) by the light of the good 'shepherd god' Hastur (Hastur, 'name of the king in yellow' I'm guessing an analogy to the Christian god who protects his flock). unfortunately his yellow ragged robe has many holes. In the 'the Yellow sign' story, Chambers also notes that in regard to Hasthur one does not want to fall into the hands of the 'living God' (a clear reference to the Christian God) what can happen if, for example, someone reads the king in yellow and gets knowledge he shouldn't have as a living one (like the telepathie between the artsist and his model after both had read the book); that's when Hastur is forced to sent his kill-agents like the zombie-man. All of his stories are otherworldly and 'elvish'. The 'The Demoiselle d'Ys' a reference to the sunken Town of Ys in the Brittany and the 'The Street of the Four Winds'...; the dead Lady is called Sylvia (Sylph or Sylphid are wind-spirits; also Sylvannay Windrunner in WoW get her name from them), the protagonist is leaded to her by a cat (cats are guardian-animals to the land of the dead) and he and Sylvia met the first time in the City 'Elven'. I find as an Author Robert W. Chambers was really good with much deeper knowledge about many things, but which he only hint at, what I miss by many modern authors.

An interesting thought is that information and ideas are almost viral things, Lovecraft himself had themes of mankind's instinctual curiosity being the end of them. We call this memes or memetics in full, and inevitably in any mention of the King in Yellow you'll have someone ask "have you seen the Yellow Sign?" As a meme.

I really love the idea of "The King in Yellow" as some kind of infectious and possibly sentient(?) idea. It still feels eldritch, but in a more unique way

Wow, I am realizing in the middle of this that this story and the reasoning for its connection to hp lovecraft is what inspired its appearance in "sucker for love"

yooo that quil pen / paint brush + gear cob animation for the intro looks great ! cool vid btw, subbed!

What if The Yellow King is actually just "the friends we met along the way"?

Great video. I was able to understand a lot of the references and lore in Fear and Hunger 1 thanks to you. The Court of the Dragon story has a lot of parallels with the game

It's taking me way too long to choose my words & type this comment. I'm a new viewer, fan of language arts, and already a huge fan. In the end, all we really have is our words and our principles. 13:00 to 15:15 was deeply resonating and I'm reminded of the first time I heard Buddy Wakefield recite "Convenience Stores". I'd missed that feeling. Thank you.

I love this. I took away that this is someone taking the idea of “ideas being dangerous” very seriously and it tickles my brain! In a very good way!

Oh nice, the King in Yellow! One of my favorite concepts/entities in horror. I'm still looking for a creepypasta I've read a long time ago based on the collection where a screenwriting student finds an ancient tome with a play in it in their library but doesn't use it. They find out later their own teacher, in a rush to get a proper play together made hers based on one of the tome's stories. On the performance night, all the actors are wearing masks and performing normally, an unknown figure roaming around the stage. Eventually the actors start to detract from their lines and eventually see the mysterious figure, praising them as King before slicing their own necks. Seeing the play causes the audience to go berserk, leading the teacher and student having to get away so they won't get hurt. Had a phase years ago where i was obsessed with the entity after that. Good times.

If you are thinking of reading The King in Yellow, you would do well to first read Ambrose Bierce's "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", given that Carcosa is referenced a fair bit throughout. I've actually done this book as an audiobook on my channel, you can find it as a playlist there. The first story is really the best of the lot, and the last couple of stories are just pedestrian romances that are jarringly out of place with the rest. They're fine if you like that kind of thing, they just don't fit in with the theme of the earlier stories. But at the very least, the first story is worth a read (or listen).

I felt the need to read it after the first season of True Detective... totally broke my brain. Even more than The Yellow Wallpaper, a story about madness as well.

I swear to GOD your videos are the singular thing getting me through English this year. I love the way you pick apart narratives and stories and explain them. your in-depth analysis and mentality towards stories has taught me to look at stories, and the themes/symbols/characters within them in whole new ways also, my take on the King in Yellow, is that he represents hatred, with Carcosa representing the place we go when we dwell in our Hatred. it makes sense, since the dark trance-like atmosphere of the planet represents the dark trance-like state of rage. of thinking of your hatred and letting it fester and grow. the King himself being the voice in your head that is hate. the voice that tells you to hurt others because of your dislike of them. with this in mind, I think the play represents physical hatred, and the action on internal feelings of hate. the infectous properties of the plat mirror how hatred can spread just as quickly as any virus. the victims of the play's power serving as both poignant allegories of victims of the hate; or on the other side of the coin, those radicalized by it. Idk tho thatz just my two cents

i cant believe how good this guys videos are

You explain the magick of words very well towards the end. Thank you for this video, as it serves us well.

Cognito hazards are the most fascinating of all thought-provoking anomalies.

It was a dangerous meme before the term was coined, and before SCP made the idea of a deadly, infectious idea cool. This is an older idea than the King In Yellow too. Much of the point of the fear of magic, the occult, witchcraft, and the educated/literate, etc. stems from people being afraid of writing itself. Thinking the act of "making words stay" was inherently magical and possibly evil. It's an ancient idea, really. Might even be older than civilization. Might even be older than writing. It could have started with an irrational fear of drawing.

The reason those are in the book is simple. Chambers said he hated horror, and "weird"fiction. The A list romantic stuff is what Chambers thought was important, for him, those are the stories that mattered. He only put the good ones in because of his editors insistence

I love this book. Finally got it last Christmas, definitely recommend the read.

Having read the story myself, I instantly saw the connection to John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Another parallel I would like to point out for those interested is Roko's Basilisk

I find The Yellow Sign fascinating. Almost like Roko's Basilisk where if you take the idea too seriously it can really mess with your perspective. The concept behind The Yellow Sign is that it's basically a curse posing as a meme. In today's internet world that's an extra-scary thought.

Ive always hated reading and english class. So when i was recommended your content i was planning on skipping it. Im very glad i didnt! Your content is truly awesome. You make learning about literature very fun. Love your style of conmentary. Keep it up🥰

I've been running a DnD campaign for af ew years now, several campaigns technically. A reoccurring plot point is there is always a man in yellow who periodically shows up, waxes sweetly about future long lost nostalgia at some point and fades into obscurity only to reappear again in another campaign. In his most recent iteration he even name drops Carcosa and how he enables false kings to rule his once opulent Kingdom just to see what a man would do with his godhood. The players have no idea who this guy is still and it makes me just so happy. The best part however is a one point I had him introduced playing a pipe organ in a church dedicated to Carcosa and I had forgotten that was even a part of the story until rewatching this video a full 2 years later. It really clings to you.

THE MASK sounds like YOUNG WERTHER fanfiction, but the excerpt at the beginning sounds like something Edgar Allan Poe would have written instead of Goethe.

I thought Genevieve ending up in the bath was a freak accident; y'know, since it's a clear watery liquid that got left in a bathtub in her own house. Which, ignoring suspension of disbelief, why did Boris think it was a good idea to put gallons of that stuff in the house at all really, but especially in a bathtub?

Love the video I was wondering if you have considered doing a video reading each story and discussing the afterthoughts.

He's popped up in many books I've listened to while at work. Welder not a big reader but a good story can get me through the boring hours of laying beads

Yo I literally just did a review of this book like a lil while ago, lol! XD I think The King in Yellow really marked the dawn of cosmic horror. (The play may only be mentioned in the first 4 stories, but I do think they're all meant to be taken together. The time travel story mentions a lake named Hali, I think, which corresponds with a location from Carcosa, and the protagonist in the war story briefly passes through the Cour de Dragon, which kinda hints that it takes place in the same world as the Court of the Dragon story. So I do think it's all a more or less singular work. Kinda.)

12:30 i was pulled in and your question of the author themself possibly being compelled to tell the story was the very question that freed my mind from the grip of the story plot 😅

"A child believes a lie because they know no better. A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience. In this way, a child's story can be so many different experiences. With enough subtext, a thing made for a child becomes an entirely different world to an adult"

I had a thought, so it is often said in the stories that the second act of the king in yellow drives one mad and that the first act being so plain only serves to deepen the madness. As it happens the book is the reverse, the first part maddeningly hints at a symbol, or place or being called the king in yellow but we never fully comprehend it, and then the rest of the book is so plain and full of trivialities that it only serves to frustrate the curious and comprehensive reader. Just a thought but perhaps he did this intentionally, much like the world of the book, avid scholars know at least of the king in yellow from pop culture, but deeper dives into the lore only result in frustration and if obsessed over, madness. and so, much like the fictional play which has infested the minds of people in the story so to does the concept of the king in yellow linger with us though not as harmful as the story imagines. even just taking this little dip into the story as I have, has made me think about this more

Heh! I just this morning listened to a fantastic short story about the king in yellow. IMO, Hastur is definitely a monster... he’s the only elder god (or emissary thereof, depending on who wrote the source material) who has the capability (or perhaps just the motivation) to interact directly with the human race in a way we can understand, albeit marginally. But he only does so because of the quality he shares with the rest of the outer gods; a total, complete, uncaring disregard for life and it’s needs or preferences. He just _seems_ like less of a monster because he’s the only one of the bunch that we can even comprehend the very edges of, I think. Although he was originally portrayed as a benign god of shepherds, the vast majority of material suggests that when he does such things he does them as a ploy to advance his own inscrutable aims..edit: wait a sec. nyarlathotep is the emissary. Disregard pretty much all of that, my mistake. 🧐 I guess my mind was ruined even before I clicked. Oh, The black stars of dim carcosa, Have you seen the yellow sign? Oh great king, in his tattered robes... All we have to offer him are blood and bones...

Just found this channel through this video. INSTANT Sub. S+ Tier content. I’m huge into really interesting and unique stories, and never thought there were any channels that would fit my exact tastes but this one seems to be it!

The baby in yellow's origin

"Love your words enough to choose then well." wow, what a beautiful lesson!

I like the vibe of the King in Yellow. They give me the same feeling I got from stories like Mononoke (the medicine seller one, not the Ghibli one) and Darkmans.

I've read this book many times. It's pleasingly creepy, nothing more than that. I've never dreamt about it, or thought about it much after reading it. Unlike H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Tomb', which I read when I was about 12, and it stuck in my imagination for ages.

I recently bought the book! It was a really good read. It wasn't really as horrorish as the summary had promised but there was still a certain... uncanniness to it that compelled me to keep reading lol

This is probably the most important and significant video I’ve seen in months! I kept feeling like The King in Yellow was a harbinger of online doom only to be beautifully followed by addressing “The Algorithm” and how it controls what we can see and hear, what we can show and say. Absolutely brilliant, even if not intended, but especially because it’s not pointed out.

“Literature isn’t something that’s supposed to help people! Literature should be a poison!” “It could be just one line. I want to pour in a deadly poison. Just one person is enough. I want to influence that person’s heart with poison.” This dialogue is between two writers from my favorite story ever. A true masterpiece in my eyes. The story is “Koi wa ameagari no you ni” or “Love like after the rain.” They have a fantastic manga and anime adaptation. It might seem like a love story between a high school student and a 40 year old guy. But it becomes so much more later in the story. It truly gives me inspiration in life. KZfaqr named Grex also made a good analysis of it.

Came here from Signalis. Thank you for making this video. ♡

Wow…so many minds melted.

This book reminds me of Tenacious D. In their travels, the duo run into the devil. To save their souls, they offer Satan "the greatest song ever written" but instead they sing a song ABOUT how great the greatest song ever written is, which works on the devil. This book is a song about a life changing song. (And a huuuuge copout given the lack of a true "song")

"It's hard to know why these stories are in here" They were published in the 30s, they got the authors some extra cash!

Video title :"This story will ruin your mind" 1.6M people : Sounds good to me

Please note that fear of the King in Yellow is generally confined to the realm of fiction. While the stories can be unsettling, there's no reason to fear the King in Yellow in real life.

There is a dating sim where you court eldrich beings and the king in yellow is one of them, I had no idea what or who the king in yellow was until now. The dating sim is love sucks btw

I was familiar with the work, but I didn't realize how influential it was. The beginning poem is reminiscent of Poe's work, too.

Very cool explanation and exploration of The King in Yellow. Just read it myself. One thing to mention, only cause I feel it's worth taking into account, in the first play, Hildred suffers a horseback accident where he spends time recovering. I felt like this added a lot to his reliability (or lack of) as a stable character. I also didn't get the impression that Alec and Genevieve lived happily after she was restored. My impression left a more ominous feeling. Regardless, loved the video!

Ive read this book a while ago, the weird thing is that only the romantic stories at the end remained with me, specially the time travel one, the other ones kinda just mashed together into a foggy memory.

The Techno/metal band 'I See Stars' has a song on one of their albums called "Yellow King"... I have been curious about this "king" myself for a few years now, so thank you for doing this video! Fantastic content per usual!

As a writer I need to read this book. I usually write short stories but this is short stories that is basically a novel. It sounds fantastic,. Thanks for the information but I need to read this.