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Cats occupy the old streets of an imagined Ulthar beneath amber lamps.
Places

Ulthar

Ulthar is the town beyond the River Skai where killing a cat is forbidden. Its local legend, temple and unusually well-connected cats make it one of Lovecraft’s most developed inhabited places in the Dreamlands. It offers Randolph Carter hospitality and essential information while preserving memories of dangers its citizens prefer not to approach.

4 min read · 739 words

Colossal columns and luminous terraces rise through dark ocean water, with distant amphibious inhabitants swimming between them.
Places

Y’ha-nthlei

Y’ha-nthlei is the Deep Ones’ city beneath the sea near Devil Reef in The Shadow over Innsmouth. It becomes the intended destination of the narrator and his cousin after the narrator’s dreams and bodily transformation change his understanding of the marine world.

3 min read · 610 words

Clawed alien scholars move across steep metallic architecture beneath five colored suns, while vast pale forms occupy the ravines below.
Places

Yaddith

Yaddith is the alien world on which Carter becomes entangled with the wizard Zkauba in Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Its many-sunned environment, extensive learning and interstellar travel offer precisely the wonders he sought, while its body and timescale make return to Earth an immense problem. The account presents a civilization under continual pressure from creatures beneath its surface.

5 min read · 856 words

Low cyclopean buildings, broad ramps and fallen toad idols stand in the red haze of Yoth’s abandoned underground city.
Places

Yoth

Yoth is the red-lit subterranean region beneath K’n-yan in The Mound. Its ruined cities and surviving records belong to a civilization older than the people who later study it. Yoth provides both the archaeological evidence for an earlier reptilian society and the route by which the cult of Tsathoggua enters K’n-yan from the still deeper darkness of N’kai.

4 min read · 824 words

Windowless black towers rise beside a dark river crossed by immense ancient bridges on Yuggoth.
Places

Yuggoth

Yuggoth is the dark world associated with the Mi-Go in The Whisperer in Darkness and several connected stories. It functions as an outpost and departure point within a far larger extraterrestrial civilization. Its windowless cities, black rivers and older ruins are described to Albert Wilmarth by a speaker whose identity he later has reason to distrust. The place is therefore both a cosmic destination and part of a carefully staged invitation.

6 min read · 1,071 words

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