Lovecraft was never shy about his influences, discussing them at length in his correspondences, and sometimes referencing them in his work, thus expanding the Lovecraftian canon far beyond the reach of his own stories. The King in Yellow is one such entity, and we will try to understand here what enraptured Lovecraft so much in the original eponymous collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers that he decided to include Hastur in his pantheon, as a Great Old One.
