Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fi...
The Nameless City
The Nameless City
Synopsis
A nameless Arab traveler ventures deep into the Arabian desert to explore a city so ancient that local legend refuses to speak its name. Descending into its buried, low-ceilinged halls, he finds bas-reliefs and artifacts suggesting the city's builders were not human — and that something belonging to that lost age may not be entirely gone. One of Lovecraft's earliest forays into cosmic horror, blending antiquarian dread with the suggestion of vast, inhuman prehistory.
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An unnamed traveler and antiquarian who explores the nameless city alone.
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The Nameless CityKindle, 2009
23 pages
Classics-Unbound2 editions available
