In The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Randolph Carter pays a visit to Kuranes, finding that the great dreamer has grown so homesick for his native Cornwall, he has dreamed parts of Celephaïs to resemble the land of his boyhood. 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.
Lovecraft Encyclopedia)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. The imagery of the horses drifting off the cliff may derive from Ambrose Bierce's "A Horseman in the Sky" (1891). Thomas Shap" in The Book of Wonder, in which the title character becomes more and more engrossed in his imaginary kingdom of Larkar until he begins to neglect business and routine tasks of daily living, and ultimately is placed in a madhouse. The story resembles a tale by Lord Dunsany, " The Coronation of Mr. Like many of Lovecraft's stories, Celephaïs was inspired by a dream, recorded in his commonplace book as "Dream of flying over city." ( EXP: An H.
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