The Silver Key

Randolph Carter crosses the whole geography of the Dreamlands to find a sunset city he has only seen while asleep. The novel-length heart of the Dream Cycle.

H. P. Lovecraft

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

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