The Other Gods And More Unearthly Tales - Plot & Excerpts
L. “Hypnos” was written in March 1922, just prior to Lovecraft’s first visit to New York City in April. The story is dedicated to “S. L.” (Samuel Loveman), whom Lovecraft had come to see in New York, and who is perhaps meant to be the strange individual whom the narrator befriends. A delicate tale that seems to combine supernatural realism with Dunsanian cosmicism, “Hypnos” develops a theme already evident in “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”—that dreams provide access to other realms of entity beyond the mundane world. It first appeared in the National Amateur (May 1923). Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that it is the result of ignorance of the danger. —BAUDELAIRE MAY THE MERCIFUL GODS, IF INDEED THERE BE SUCH, GUARD THOSE hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep.
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