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Colourful beings

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The King In Yellow, generally depicted clad all in yellow, has a similarity to other literary and mythic figures of distinctive hue: * Nyarlathotep in his red-robed Egyptian form * The Red Death * The Black Man of Witch Lore and the Cthulhu Mythos (as an avatar of Nyarlathotep) * Erlik, the Red God * Tengri, the Lord of the Blue Heaven * China's Yellow Emperor * The Queen In Red * The Red Queen * The Crimson King * The Yellow Jester * The Purple Jester in the poem of the same name * Mr Punch and his earlier incarnation as Pulcinella * The Purple Emperor of The Purple Emperor * Ksarul, Doomed Prince of the Blue Room

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The King In Yellow, generally depicted clad all in yellow, has a similarity to other literary and mythic figures of distinctive hue: * Nyarlathotep in his red-robed Egyptian form * The Red Death * The Black Man of Witch Lore and the Cthulhu Mythos (as an avatar of Nyarlathotep) * Erlik, the Red God * Tengri, the Lord of the Blue Heaven * China's Yellow Emperor * The Queen In Red * The Red Queen * The Crimson King * The Yellow Jester * The Purple Jester in the poem of the same name * Mr Punch and his earlier incarnation as Pulcinella * The Purple Emperor of The Purple Emperor * Ksarul, Doomed Prince of the Blue Room Although not a supernatural being, the butterfly the Purple Emperor inspired a non-mythos story of the same name by Robert W. Chambers, which in turn inspired the mythos story above.