Celephaïs
Sign in to save"Celephaïs" () is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. It is part of the body of work which later came to be known as Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in other Dream Cycle stories, including Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).
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- Short story.name
- Celephaïs
- Short story.author
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Short story.country
- United States
- Short story.language
- English
- Short story.publication_type
- Periodical
- Short story.published_in
- Rainbow
- Short story.media_type
- Print (magazine)
- Short story.pub_date
- May 1922
- Short story.image
- Celephaïs.jpg
- Short story.caption
- First page of the manuscript Celephaïs
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- Celephaïs
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- literary work
- Author
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Genre
- horror literature
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Dream Cycle
- Image
- Celephaïs.jpg
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- Celephaïs
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- He reigns there still, and will reign happily forever, though below the cliffs at Innsmouth the channel tides played mockingly with the body of a tramp who had stumbled through the half-deserted village at dawn; played mockingly, and cast it upon the rocks by ivy-covered Trevor Towers, where a notably fat and especially offensive millionaire brewer enjoys the purchased atmosphere of extinct nobility.
- form of creative work
- short story
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 1920-00-00
- publication date
- 1922-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- title
- Celephaïs
- first line
- In a dream Kuranes saw the city in the valley, and the sea-coast beyond, and the snowy peak overlooking the sea, and the gaily painted galleys that sail out of the harbour toward the distant regions where the sea meets the sky.
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"Celephaïs" () is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. It is part of the body of work which later came to be known as Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in other Dream Cycle stories, including Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).
==Plot== Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child, of the English landed gentry. Then as a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celephaïs. He became the king and chief god of the city, though his body washes up by his ancestors' tower, now owned by a parvenu.
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