H. P. Lovecraft
Ex Oblivione
Published: 1921
Estimated Reading Time: ~0.5 hours
A free public-domain edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Ex Oblivione, prepared by Unspeakable Tales.
This brief dream-vision follows a weary seeker toward a mysterious gate, where the promise of escape becomes more unsettling than fear itself.
This brief dream-vision follows a weary seeker toward a mysterious gate, where the promise of escape becomes more unsettling than fear itself.
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This Unspeakable Tales edition presents Ex Oblivione as a free designed eBook for readers of dream literature, dark fantasy, and philosophical weird fiction.
The piece is short, but its mood is enormous: a meditation on fatigue, longing, and the strange comfort of nonexistence, shaped through Lovecraft's dreamlike prose.
It is a quiet companion to the Dream Cycle stories, less concerned with plot than with atmosphere, symbolic thresholds, and the fatal beauty of escape.
The piece is short, but its mood is enormous: a meditation on fatigue, longing, and the strange comfort of nonexistence, shaped through Lovecraft's dreamlike prose.
It is a quiet companion to the Dream Cycle stories, less concerned with plot than with atmosphere, symbolic thresholds, and the fatal beauty of escape.