Editing Carcosa (section)

==Carcosa in Weird Fiction==
The name Carcosa debuted in 1886, in the short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce. Believed to take its name from the Latin name for the Medieval Southern France city of Carcassonne, it is described only in passing and in hindsight by the protagonist, a former denizen of Carcosa, and what little we are told in this tale is that it is an ancient, mysterious city.

Carcosa began cementing its place in the canon of Weird Fiction when, in 1895, Robert W. Chambers appropriate the name for his horror fiction universe, making up the short stories in the anthology "The King in Yellow", which all revolved around the same cursed play. In these places, Carcosa is a mysterious, ancient, possibly cursed place, tied into the production of the titular play "The King in Yellow". The most concrete description of it that players are ever given is that it sits on the shores of Lake Hali, which is located "somewhere within the star cluster Hyades", which may place it either on another planet or in another universe.

Finally, Carcosa was assimilated into the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and his groupie-authors, as Lovecraft himself was a fan of Chambers' works. This is the most famous iteration of Carcosa.