The Silver Key
Unknown
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Description
The Silver Key is a tale by H P Lovecraft, taken from Weird Tales for January 1929. Randolph Carter is the hero. At thirty he lost the key to the gate of dreams, and the tale tells his search for what was gone.
Before that loss, Carter made up for the dullness of life by night trips to strange, old cities beyond space. His galleys sailed up the river Oukranos past the gilded spires of Thran. His elephant caravans tramped through perfumed jungles in Kled, where old palaces sleep under the moon. Then middle age hardened on him, and the freedoms slipped away bit by bit. Kind teachers of thought had shown him the logic of things and drained the wonder out. Lovecraft fans get a dream quest in a sad, rich key.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |