Welcome back, fellow Lovercaftian scholars. This is the third week of our book club exploring Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. This week’s thread is open for discussion of last week’s reading: The Doom that Came to Sarnath and The Cats of Ulthar.

For this week’s assignment we have two more short stories: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.

Celephais and Nyarlathotep were both written in 1920, the same year as The Cats of Ulthar and one of our future reading assignments, Ex Oblivione; evidently this was a very productive year for the Dream Cycle. While 1920 is the year in which Lovecraft wrote the most Dream Cycle stories, in 1927 he wrote two novella-length stories in the cycle: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Reading for this week can be found in the trusty PDF here, and individual links for LibriVox recordings follow: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.