Jacob Rollinson

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Front cover of a novel. The title reads: The truth of carcosa: a novel. The author is Jacob Rollinson. The cover is yellow, with bold red lettering. In the centre is the figure of a figure in a robe and crown, but the face and body of the figure are empty, giving instead a vista of a fantastic landscape

The cover for THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA is revealed! Fantastic work by @corraldesign.bsky.social. I feel like it conveys things that are key to this novel: its retro SFF aesthetic, metafictional play, and vision of worlds within worlds

The Truth of Carcosa Evil books, shadowy corporations, and interdimensional monster collide in this dark, masterful tribute to Robert Chamber's cult classic, The King in Yellow. ...

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youtu.be/8VztTd6qQ1I Here I am, with Thrity Umrigar. Thrity talks about her new book MISSING SAM. I talk about how I came to write THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA. Is there anything more DREADFUL than intergalactic ancient evil? Yes: public speaking. OBSERVE the panic oozing from my pores! PRE-ORDER my book!

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Over time, a great deal of the pseudo-academic content was edited out, as the horror/thriller elements of the novel took precedence. But the rotten kernel of my novel remains a work of paranoid literary interpretation, so I get excited when people post about The King in Yellow like this

And that's how the world of my forthcoming novel, THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA was born. My essays became a Special Report by one of the narrators, a despicable individual more than a little like Hildred Castaigne

I realised that the totalising schema with which I wanted to unite my musings in these essays didn't exist in the real world, or the almost-real world of serious academia. It became necessary to create an alternative reality in which my interpretation of The King in Yellow was supreme

I contracted COVID. I suffered from long fevers. The world continued to fall into darkness and confusion. More than anything I wanted to understand the connections apparent in the stories in The King in Yellow. I wanted to demonstrate mastery of that field if nothing else

I was interested in the ways in which "academic" writing can mirror the echoing chambers of an unsound mind. I wrote more essays, about other stories in The King in Yellow. I became entranced by the deployment of signs (literal Yellow Signs) connecting the stories

I started out by writing an essay about this story. While I was writing, my academic persona morphed into something more paranoid, more prone to digression. I started emulating Hildred Castaigne, narrator of The Repairer of Reputations, a man swimming in a sea of bad affect from without and within

Without just posting my book deal post yet again, I want to respond in a little more depth to @timclare.bsky.social's insightful thread about The Repairer of Reputations. Back in 2020, when COVID was just hitting, I needed something to focus my attention on. This story, and this book, was that.

I have very good reasons of my own to reskeet this thread on Robert Chambers' The Repairer of Reputations, my favourite short story in The King in Yellow.

Agree! The Repairer of Reputations is absolutely my favourite story in the collection - and so prescient with its proto-fascist setting

Some *extremely* exciting news from me! It's time to get back to the 'SF' in 'SFF':

My deal announcement came out on my birthday. Happy birthday to me! May the Yellow King hold off destruction of this planet long enough for my tribute to his intergalactic majesty THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA to hit the shelves (in North America in 2026)

Selfie of Hailey Piper holding an advance review copy of her upcoming book, A Game in Yellow, art by Caroline Teagle Johnson

ICYMI we did a cover reveal of my upcoming queer erotic cosmic horror novel A GAME IN YELLOW, and now I'm holding an ARC in my hands 🤩 it feels lovely, and I can't wait for Saga and I to bring you this King in Yellow-fueled madness on August 12 next year! 💛
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This is great! I will lose time here

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

Thanks Jesse!

Thanks, it's great to hear. And that sounds like a fantastic opportunity!

Thank you!!!!

My deal announcement came out on my birthday. Happy birthday to me! May the Yellow King hold off destruction of this planet long enough for my tribute to his intergalactic majesty THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA to hit the shelves (in North America in 2026)

My debut novel THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA irrupting into this reality in 2026!!!

Thank you! I'm really excited to get it out there!