Chapter I - The Shadow On The Chimney
Chapter II - A Passer In The Storm
Chapter III - What The Red Glare Meant
Chapter IV - The Horror In The Eyes
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange High House in the Mist
Chapter I - A Simple Rustic Maid
Chapter II - And the Villain Still Pursued Her
Chapter VI - Alone in the Great City
Chapter VII - Happy Ever Afterward
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
The History of the Necronomicon
The Nameless City
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Written: January 1921
First published in The Wolverine, No. 11 (November 1921), Pages 3-15
When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandmother of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see.
Remote in the desert of Araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden