![]() He then hears moaning coming from the coffin passage, and feels a strong wind coming from the passage, trying to pull him down. After crawling to it on his hands and knees, he sees a large brass door with a descent into a misty portal. The narrator notices a large amount of light coming from an unknown source. ![]() After he descends, his torch dies, and he crawls on his hands and knees until he enters a hallway with small wooden coffins containing bizarre reptiles inside of them lining the walls. While he attends to his suddenly nervous camel, the narrator discovers a somewhat larger temple, with altars, painted murals, and a small staircase going down. The next day, the narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use. After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula to seek out and enter a lost city. Though Lovecraft himself was quite fond of the story, it was roundly rejected by a variety of magazines. In the story, the protagonist travels to the middle of the Arabian Desert to explore an ancient underground city. It is often considered the first story set in the Cthulhu Mythos world. ![]() Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. " The Nameless City" is a short horror story written by American writer H.
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