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Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show

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An 1895 book of horror stories that’s the key to understanding the riveting HBO series ‘True Detective’ has become a bestseller on Amazon. Read the first four stories here.

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The key to understanding HBO’s enthralling series True Detective might be thereferences to the Yellow King and Carcosa, which the killer Reggie Ledoux talks about and the show hints at to be figures and symbols of a satanic cult of some sort.

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