It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and encounters a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. He longs to know what lies beyond the gate.Then one night, the man dreams of the dream-city Zakarion, in which he finds a yellowed papyrus written by wise dream-sages who exist only within the dream world. The papyrus tells of the gate, with varying accounts of what lies beyond: some of the dream-sages tell of immense wonders, while others tell of horror and disappointment.Despite this lack of unanimity, the man still wishes to see for himself, even knowing that whichever of these is true, there will be no return. Thus he reads further into the papyrus and learns of a drug which will unlock the gate.The next night he swallows the drug and returns to the gate which is now ajar, but upon entering, he discovers that indeed both accounts within the papyrus are in a sense true: beyond is the wonderment of forever being free from the pain of the real world and the happy surprise that nothing lies beyond the gate but the infinite void that is death.
About the Author
Howard Phillips Lovecraft grew up in Providence, Rhode Island primarily with his Mother and two Aunts. He was a gifted poet at an early age in life and later became a well known and prolific writer of weird fictions. His works were primarily horror but often also combined heavy elements of fantasy and science fiction. He was a an avid reader and a great fan of the famous poet, Edgar Allen Poe, and a pen pal of the late Robert E. Howard, who wrote Conan novels. Most of Lovecrafts works involved and detailed themes of forbidden knowledge, influences on humanity from non-human sources, inherited guilt, civilization under threat, religion, dangers of arcane sciences, race, ethnicity, social class, and even fate. His major influences were authors, writers, and poets like Arthur Machen, Poe, Gertrude Barrows Bennet, Robert W. Chambers, Rupert Hughes, Lord Dunsany. Lovecraft created a vast mythos in the course of writing his various novels which have had a huge influence on the horror genre and the mythos has evolved over time as other writers borrowed from, changed, and/or added to the world of Lovecraft. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and encounters a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. He longs to know what lies beyond the gate.Then one night, the man dreams of the dream-city Zakarion, in which he finds a yellowed papyrus written by wise dream-sages who exist only within the dream world. The papyrus tells of the gate, with varying accounts of what lies beyond: some of the dream-sages tell of immense wonders, while others tell of horror and disappointment.Despite this lack of unanimity, the man still wishes to see for himself, even knowing that whichever of these is true, there will be no return. Thus he reads further into the papyrus and learns of a drug which will unlock the gate.The next night he swallows the drug and returns to the gate which is now ajar, but upon entering, he discovers that indeed both accounts within the papyrus are in a sense true: beyond is the wonderment of forever being free from the pain of the real world and the happy surprise that nothing lies beyond the gate but the infinite void that is death.
About the Author
Howard Phillips Lovecraft grew up in Providence, Rhode Island primarily with his Mother and two Aunts. He was a gifted poet at an early age in life and later became a well known and prolific writer of weird fictions. His works were primarily horror but often also combined heavy elements of fantasy and science fiction. He was a an avid reader and a great fan of the famous poet, Edgar Allen Poe, and a pen pal of the late Robert E. Howard, who wrote Conan novels. Most of Lovecrafts works involved and detailed themes of forbidden knowledge, influences on humanity from non-human sources, inherited guilt, civilization under threat, religion, dangers of arcane sciences, race, ethnicity, social class, and even fate. His major influences were authors, writers, and poets like Arthur Machen, Poe, Gertrude Barrows Bennet, Robert W. Chambers, Rupert Hughes, Lord Dunsany. Lovecraft created a vast mythos in the course of writing his various novels which have had a huge influence on the horror genre and the mythos has evolved over time as other writers borrowed from, changed, and/or added to the world of Lovecraft. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.