The King in Yellow, (4) The Yellow Sign

Here's the recording. The fourth story from The King in Yellow by
Robert W. Chambers, originally published in 1895. The book is a
collection of short stories in the genre of weird fiction, strange
tales with slightly morbid tendencies. It inspired authors like H.
P. Lovecraft in their works. The text in full can be found on
Project Gutenberg. The King in Yellow, (4) The Yellow Sign “Let the
red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies
And all is through.” I There are so many things which are
impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me
think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should
the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns
whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it
in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o’clock that flashed
before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight
filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously,
half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: “To think that
this also is a little ward of God!”