Shortly after, Yasmin vanishes.ĭistraught over Yasmin’s sudden disappearance, Amal attempts to retrace her patient’s last steps-and accidentally slips through dimensions, ending up in Carcosa, realm of the King in Yellow. Yasmin is convinced something greater than delusion is happening, and quickly becomes obsessed with Robert Chambers’ The King in Yellow. Believing the book to have her answers, she goes out seeking an option beyond therapy. The two get off to a rocky start, and as Yasmin’s night terrors increase and the looming figure at the foot of her bed creeps closer every night, Amal begins to worry that she’s out of her depth. Amal Robardin, a newly licensed therapist who has recently immigrated to Brooklyn from Beirut, is treating her first patient: Yasmin, a 23-year-old schizophrenic. “Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake. Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger’s Where Black Stars Rise, an eldritch horror graphic novel that explores mental illness and reimagines Robert Chambers’ The King in Yellow in modern-day Brooklyn, will be published by Nightfire on October 18th, 2022! Take a sneak peek at the interior art below.
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