The Truth of Carcosa - by Jacob Rollinson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

In 1984, the renowned author, Salvatore Archimboldi accepts the help of a psychotherapist to write his new book, hoping to transform traumatic memories into literary genius. But the resulting book, The Truth of Carcosa, is more than a book--and, horrified, Archimboldi suppresses his creation and wills all traces of it, his correspondence, and any copies to be totally destroyed.

Long after Archimboldi's death, in a chaotic age of resurgent nationalism and violence, a biographer and his protégée search through Archimboldi's correspondence for clues to the location for the last copy of The Truth of Carcosa. Hot on their heels are a shadowy, all-powerful corporation, and a madman with his own, private reasons for his obsession. As these groups converge, it becomes clear that the last copy of The Truth of Carcosa might be the answer to a bewildering set of questions:

What are the strange entities that arise in the wake of the book?

Who--or what--is the Yellow King?

And what does he want with us?

About the Author

Jacob Rollinson was born in England in 1984 and has lived and worked in China and the UK. He completed a creative and critical writing PhD at the University of East Anglia, and his fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in NewWriting.net, Spoonfeed, Moxy, Critical Quarterly and the Brixton Review of Books. His novella Late King in Yellow Woods was published in 2021. He lives in Sussex and works as an academic librarian.