Dream Cycle

The Dream Cycle is a series of short stories and novellas by author H. P. Lovecraft^[1] (1890–1937). Written between 1918 and 1932, they concern themselves with "The Dreamlands," a vast, alternate dimension that can be entered via dreams.

A map of Lovecraft's "Dreamworld" by Jack Gaughan (1967).

Geography

The Dreamlands are apparently divided into four regions:

The West 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,"^[2] 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.
The South, home of the isle of Oriab and the areas known as the Fantastic Realms (described in "The White Ship").
The East, home of Celephaïs, a city dreamt into being by its monarch Kuranes, greatest of all recorded dreamers, and the dangerous Forbidden Lands.
The North, location of the feared Plateau of Leng, home of man-eating spiders and the satyr-like "Men of Leng".^[3]

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.

Evidently all dreamers see the Dreamlands slightly differently, as Atal, High Priest of Ulthar, mentions that everyone has their own dreamland. In the same sentence he says the Dreamlands that many know is a "general land of vision."

Bibliography

Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Del Rey, 1985.^[4]^[5]

Contents:

"Polaris" (1918)
"The White Ship" (1919)
"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1919)
"The Cats of Ulthar" (1920)
"Celephaïs" (1920)
"Ex Oblivione" (1920)
"Nyarlathotep" (1920)
"The Quest of Iranon" (1921)
"The Nameless City" (reference only) (1921)
"The Other Gods" (1921)
"Azathoth" (1922)
"The Hound" (reference only) (1922)
"Hypnos" (1922)
"What the Moon Brings" (1922)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926)
"The Outsider" (1926)
"The Silver Key" (1926)
"The Strange High House in the Mist" (1926)
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (1927)
"The Thing in the Moonlight" (Based on a letter written to Donald Wandrei. Written by J. Chapman Miske) (1927. Published 1941)
"At the Mountains of Madness" (reference only) (1931)
"The Dreams in the Witch House" (roughly connected) (1932)
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (with E. Hoffmann Price) (1932)

Other

Harms, Daniel (1998). "Dreamlands". The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: Chaosium. pp. 89–91. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.
Brian Lumley wrote his own Dreamlands books as well, beginning with "Hero of Dreams".
Myers, Gary (1975). House of the Worm. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-071-8.
Myers, Gary (2013). The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep. CreateSpace. ISBN 9781484801970.
Jonathan L. Howard (2011). Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute. Headline Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0755347995.

References

↑ James Turner (ed.) (1998). Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1st ed.). New York, NY: Random House. cover blurb. ISBN 0-345-42204-X.
↑ "The Cats of Ulthar" by H. P. Lovecraft
↑ "The Hound" by H. P. Lovecraft
↑ The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
↑ The H.P. Lovecraft Archive

External links

The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft public domain audiobook at LibriVox
The Doom That Came To Sarnath public domain audiobook at LibriVox
The Gods of Pegāna public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Time and the Gods public domain audiobook at LibriVox
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox
A Dreamer's Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox
The Book of Wonder public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Tales of Three Hemispheres public domain audiobook at LibriVox

H. P. Lovecraft

Works	List of works Dream Cycle

Locations	Arkham Dunwich Innsmouth Kingsport Miskatonic University Miskatonic River Lovecraft Country R'lyeh The Nameless City Yuggoth

Characters	Abdul Alhazred Robert Harrison Blake Randolph Carter Kuranes Herbert West

Cthulhu Mythos deities	Azathoth Cthulhu Ghatanothoa Hypnos Nodens Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Tsathoggua Yog-Sothoth

Cthulhu Mythos species	Colour out of space Deep Ones Dholes Elder Things Flying polyps Great Race of Yith Hunting Horrors Men of Leng Mi-go Moon-beasts Nightgaunts Serpent Men Shantaks Shoggoth

Books about Lovecraft	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside Lovecraft: A Biography Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Legacy and influence	Cthulhu Mythos Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture Lovecraftian horror Cosmicism Weird fiction

Related	Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos Books in the Cthulhu Mythos Cthulhu Mythos cults Necronomicon Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (documentary) Kalem Club

Family	Sonia Greene (wife) Whipple Van Buren Phillips (grandfather)

Works by H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu Mythos Dream Cycle

Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time

Short stories	"The Tomb" "Dagon" "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" "Polaris" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Memory" "Old Bugs" "The Transition of Juan Romero" "The White Ship" "The Street" "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Terrible Old Man" "The Tree" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Temple" "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" "Celephaïs" "From Beyond" "Nyarlathotep" "The Picture in the House" "Ex Oblivione" "Sweet Ermengarde" "The Nameless City" "The Quest of Iranon" "The Moon-Bog" "The Outsider" "The Other Gods" "The Music of Erich Zann" "Herbert West–Reanimator" "Hypnos" "What the Moon Brings" "Azathoth" "The Hound" "The Lurking Fear" "The Rats in the Walls" "The Unnamable" "The Festival" "The Shunned House" "The Horror at Red Hook" "He" "In the Vault" "Cool Air" "The Call of Cthulhu" "Pickman's Model" "The Silver Key" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Colour Out of Space" "The Descendant" "History of the Necronomicon" "The Very Old Folk" "Ibid" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Dreams in the Witch House" "The Thing on the Doorstep" "The Evil Clergyman" "The Book" "The Haunter of the Dark"

Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" "The Curse of Yig" "The Mound" "Medusa's Coil" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Out of the Aeons" "The Tree on the Hill" "Till A’the Seas" "In the Walls of Eryx" "The Thing in the Moonlight"

Juvenilia	"The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" "The Beast in the Cave" "The Alchemist"

Poetry	Fungi from Yuggoth

Essays	"Supernatural Horror in Literature" To Quebec and the Stars The Cancer of Superstition Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity

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