Celephaïs

Celephaïs was something that was created in a dream by a person called Kuranes. It is a fictional city that appears in the author's other novellas. This is a simple story with a deeper meaning linked to civilizations. My favorite three lines from this book. "He dared not disobey the......more

Another one of those hypnotic dreamlike tales only Lovecraft could write. Kuranes is the last of his family. He lives more and more in his dreams hoping forever to settle down in the promised land of eternal youth and glory Celephais. Well, in the end (of his money and probably life) he escapes real......more

Written in 1920 when Lovecraft was thirty, “Celephais” resembles Lord Dunsany’s “The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap” (although their heroes’ fates differ considerably), and the tale is a fine example of Lovecraft’s Dunsanian style. It tells of a man named Kuranes—later visited by Randolph Carter on hi......more

Lovecraft's less-known Dream Cycle keeps amazing me. Markedly different from the typical Cthulhu horror (although still heavily connected to it), they provide a new angle on Lovecraft's work that's refreshing, thought-provoking, and hauntingly beautiful. Celephaïs centres on a man lost in the dreary......more