- Howard Philip Lovecraft 's Dreamland and Dream cycle :
Note: Here is a link to an exploration of all of Lovecraft's work with comments by two insightful readers, Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth. Tor.com Reread of Lovecraft.
- Howard Philip Lovecraft created a series of stories inspired by the writings of Lord Dunsany to describe a vast alternate reality that can be visited through one’s dreams.
- The Dreamlands are roughly divided into four regions:
- The Western regions contains the Steps of Deeper Slumber (descended via the "Cavern of Flame") and the Enchanted Woods, by which many enter the Dreamlands. Other points of interest include the port of Dylath-Leen, one of the Dreamlands' largest cities; the town of Ulthar, "where no man may kill a cat"; the coastal jungle city of Hlanith; and the desert trading capital Illarnek. Here lies the fabled Land of Mnar, whose gray stones are etched with signs and where rise the ruins of the great Sarnath. [This area is what I in my Fantasy novel Through the Gate of Dreams, reconfigure as the 'Isle of Atlantis'. ]
- The Southern regions home of the isle of Oriab and the areas known as the Fantastic Realms (described in "The White Ship").
- The Eastern regions home of Celephaïs, a city dreamt into being by its monarch Kuranes, greatest of all recorded dreamers, and the dangerous Forbidden Lands.
- The Northern regions location of the feared Plateau of Leng, home of man-eating spiders and the satyr-like "Men of Leng".
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- Other locales include the Underworld, a subterranean region underneath the Dreamlands inhabited by various monsters; the Moon, accessible via a ship and inhabited by toad-like "moon-beasts" allied with Nyarlathotep; and Kadath, a huge castle atop a mountain and the domain of the "Great Ones", the gods of Earth's Dreamland.
- Fandom Wiki of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands
- The story Cycle
- "Title" (date when it was written, date when it was first published) Link to the text of the story
- "Polaris" (1918, December 1920) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The White Ship" (1919, November 1919) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920, June 1920) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The Cats of Ulthar" (June 1920, November 1920) Full text & Full Text Link to Tor reread
- "Celephaïs" (November 1920, May 1922) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "Ex Oblivione" (late 1920/early 1921, March 1921) Full text & Full Text
- "Nyarlathotep" (1920, November 1920) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The Quest of Iranon" (February 1921, July/August 1935) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- “The Other Gods" (August 1921, November 1933) Full text & Full Text
- "Azathoth" (June 1922, 1938) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The Hound" (reference indirectly to the Dreamland locations only) (September 1922, February 1924) Full text & Full Text
- "Hypnos" (March 1922, May 1923) Full text & Full Text
- "What the Moon Brings" (June 1922, May 1923) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Began in Autumn of 1926 and completed in January of 1927, 1943) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread part 1 Tor.com reread part 2
- "The Outsider" (August 1921, April 1926) Full text & Full Text
- "The Silver Key" (1926, January 1929) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- "The Strange High House in the Mist" (November 1926, October 1931) Full text & Full Text Tor reread
- "The Thing in the Moonlight" (Based on a letter written to Donald Wandrei. Written by J. Chapman Miske, November1927. Published January 1941) Full text
- At the Mountains of Madness (mentions some of the geography of Dreamland, February – March 1931, February – April 1936) Full text Tor.com reread part 1 Tor.com reread part 2
- Tor.com reread part 3
- "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (with E. Hoffmann Price October 1932 – April 1933, July 1934) Full text & Full Text Tor.com reread
- Gary Myers House of the Worm (Arkham House, 1975 )
- Gary Myers The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Self Published, 2nd ed. 2022)
- Gary M. Jaron (1979-1980, revised text 2022) The Shattered Dreamers Series :
- Through The Gate of Dreams
- All My Days Are Trances
Links to other Sites discussing Lovecraft's Dream lands:
A Tour around Dream Lands by David Maurice Garrett Link
The Dream Land Cycle brought to life Link
The Dream Lands A Wiki Fandom page Link
About the Dream lands on the Yog Sothoth Fan wiki page Link
A Novel by Antonio Zarda Exploring his own version of the realm of Dreams in The Dreamkeepers Link
A Tour around Dream Lands by David Maurice Garrett Link
The Dream Land Cycle brought to life Link
The Dream Lands A Wiki Fandom page Link
About the Dream lands on the Yog Sothoth Fan wiki page Link
A Novel by Antonio Zarda Exploring his own version of the realm of Dreams in The Dreamkeepers Link