The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

A man tells police what happened to the friend who climbed down into a tomb with a field telephone. Short, and the first appearance of Lovecraft's recurring dreamer.

H. P. Lovecraft

Randolph Carter loses the ability to dream and goes looking for the key that returns it. A quieter, more reflective piece about growing out of wonder.

H. P. Lovecraft

A man who has lost everything in waking life keeps returning to a city he built in a childhood dream. One of the purest Dreamlands tales.

H. P. Lovecraft

A priest climbs a forbidden mountain to look on the gods of earth and finds their protectors waiting. Brief, and central to the mythology of the Dreamlands.

H. P. Lovecraft

A thousand years after the men of Sarnath destroy a neighbouring city, the debt comes due. Written in a deliberately archaic register that shows the Dunsany influence clearly.

H. P. Lovecraft