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The narrator notices a large amount of light coming from an unknown source. After crawling to it on his hands and knees, he sees a large brass door with a descent into a misty portal. He then hears moaning coming from the coffin passage, and feels a strong wind coming from the passage, trying to pull
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to seek out and enter a lost city. After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The next day, the narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use. While he attends to his
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with a strange head common to neither of them, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose, and an alligator-like jaw crawling behind the lit portal. The wind dies down after the last of it flows down into the light, when suddenly the door closes behind the narrator, leaving him in the
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a mood of terror: the emotion is applied in the adjectives." He does, however, allow that the tale has some "evocative power". Lovecraft himself was powerfully moved by an emotion of awe and fascination when contemplating the mysterious ruins of unthinkable antiquity. This emotion he manages to
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was one of Lovecraft's primary inspirations for "The Nameless City", citing "the reptile race, the tunnel to the interior of the earth, and the 'hidden world of eternal day'" as elements common to both tales. More generally, Fulwiler suggests, the theme of "alien races more powerful and more
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Though Lovecraft counted "The Nameless City" among his favorite stories, it was rejected (following its original amateur appearance) by a variety of professional outlets, including
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could not recall it, and thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that stood in the land of Mnar when mankind was young, and of Ib, that was carven of grey stone before mankind existed.
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him down. Against all odds, he resists, and sees what appear to be reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a
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In the darkness there flashed before my mind fragments of my cherished treasury of daemonic lore; sentences from
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Though Lovecraft himself was quite fond of the story, it was roundly rejected by a variety of magazines.
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Later in the story, a single paragraph mentions Lovecraft's fictional Arab poet, an actual 5th century
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intelligent than man", which recurs frequently in Lovecraft's writings, may derive from Burroughs'
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Lovecraft said that the story was based on a dream, which was in turn inspired by the last line of
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in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal
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The Best of H. P. Lovecraft - A Collection of Short Stories (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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cites four different lists of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories — including his own and
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convey in a sort of dreamlike manner, despite his coldly clinical use of adjectives.
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In "The Nameless City", Alhazred is not yet identified as the author of the famous
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stories. However, both writers drew on an already existing and vast literature of "
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and Wilson Shepherd, and was reprinted in the November 1938 issue of
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To myself I pictured all the splendours of an age so distant that
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world. In the story, the protagonist travels to the middle of the
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The story is often reprinted in various short story collections.
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The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the
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Vol. 1, p. 122; cited in Joshi and Schultz, pp. 181-182.
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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