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Tagged: Dream fiction

Literature

Azathoth

Azathoth is an unfinished prose fragment about an unnamed city dweller who reaches the worlds of dream through prolonged contemplation of the night sky. Although its title is shared with a major Mythos entity, the surviving passage does not describe or name that being within its narrative.

2 min read · 409 words

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Polaris

An unnamed man believes that his apparent waking life is a dream preventing him from returning to an endangered northern city. In Polaris, repeated visions become a recovered identity and a military duty, while the Pole Star seems to encourage the sleep that betrays both. The compact narrative ends without resolving which existence deserves to be called real.

5 min read · 844 words

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The Crawling Chaos

The Crawling Chaos is a collaboration by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson in which a medically induced vision carries its narrator from a collapsing coast toward apparent celestial refuge, then reveals the destruction of Earth. The story’s title should not be confused with an identification of its unseen forces as Nyarlathotep: that entity is not named in the narrative.

6 min read · 1,073 words

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The Green Meadow

The Green Meadow is a collaboration by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson, presented as a translation of a notebook recovered from a strange fallen stone. The enclosed narrative follows a solitary consciousness drifting toward a place that promises recognition, then reveals an inescapable future. Its damaged ending makes the origin and meaning of the testimony part of the mystery.

6 min read · 1,070 words

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The Quest of Iranon

The Quest of Iranon follows a seemingly ageless singer searching for the beautiful city where he believes he was born a prince. Practical townspeople reject his calling, pleasure-seekers briefly reward it, and a childhood companion ages and dies beside him. The final encounter makes the existence of the remembered city inseparable from the belief that has sustained his identity.

5 min read · 1,037 words

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The White Ship

The White Ship is Basil Elton’s account of a voyage from his lonely lighthouse through lands embodying forgotten beauty, dangerous mysteries, pleasure and imagination. After finding a realm without suffering, he insists on pursuing a still more perfect destination. His return joins the loss of that imagined happiness to the consequences of a failed beacon.

5 min read · 1,018 words