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Chambers - King in Yellow — Description
It never appears directly in any of the the stories, rather being only briefely alluded. What do we know of it?

It wears a tattered robe, Yellow in color.
Its face seems more like a mask. (and it's probably not very pleasant.)
It's associated with Necromancy (thus I made it face a bit corpse-like)
It's associated with symbol known as Yellow Sign and an ancient city of Carcosa.
It causes madness of those who read play entitled "King in Yellow"

that's what I knew the last time I attempted to draw it. Since then I learned that the Author himself has created an image of this entity. That's what I based my version on, mostly. Adding the Yellows Sign symbol on his neck, a crown and some tentacles peeking from underneath his robes.

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

Robert W. Chambers, The Mask