Music related to The King In Yellow includes:
- Creativitist Musician Philip Stranger has adapted and recorded a version of Cassilda's Song for piano & voices. This song is rumoured to be the beginning of a concept album based on The Prophet's Paradise from The King In Yellow. Painter Thomas H. Green is in talks to provide the artwork for the album cover.
- Blue Oyster Cult's song "ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" includes, in its lyrics:
- I'm in fairy rings and tower beds.
- "Don't report this," three men said.
- Books by the blameless and by the dead.
- King In Yellow, Queen In Red.
- (The Queen in red is presumed to be a reference to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen)
- French Death metallers Yyrkoon display The Yellow Sign on the cover of the album 'Unhealty Opera'. There doesn't seem to be any specific references to the Yellow Mythos, but the track 'Abnormal Intrusion' seems to be about the Tillinghast Resonator, and 'Horror From the Sea' is about exactly what you think it is.
- The Finnish black metal band Dawn of Relic's debut album from 1999 is called One Night in Carcosa. The album's second song is titled When Aldebaran is Visible and mentions Byakhee. The instrumental opening track for the band's second album Lovecraftian Dark is called Dawn Over Carcosa.
- London rock band King Crimson (founded 1969) and their album In The Court of the Crimson King have been associated with The Hastur Mythos by some. (Youtube video of The Court of the Crimson King) In addition to the Crimson King, there are also the lines :
- "The Yellow Jester does not play
But gently pulls the strings"
- "The Yellow Jester does not play
See also the Category listing for other bands using related terminology.