Hp lovecraft the dream quest

He became the king and chief god of the city, though his body washes up by his ancestors' tower, now owned by a parvenu. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celephaïs. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, including his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).Ĭelephaïs 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. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. " Celephaïs" ( / ˈ s ɛ l ə f eɪ s/) is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H.