The Nameless City ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Nameless City ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Nameless City



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Carpenter



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

The Nameless City of the story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, and is older than any human civilization. In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose, and an alligator-like jaw. These beings moved by crawling; thus, the architecture of the city has very low ceilings and some places are too low for a human being to stand upright. Their city was originally coastal, but, when the seas receded, it was left in the depths of a desert. This resulted in the decline and eventual ruin of the city.



The protagonist of "The Nameless City" states:



It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet [author of the Necronomicon] dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplained couplet:



"That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons, even death may die."

However, the reptilians still maintain some form of life in a vast luminous paradise located within a cavern beneath the Nameless City, preserved and placed along the walls in a subterranean chamber. Also within this chamber are hieroglyphs and reliefs that tell to the protagonist the story of the city's heyday of prosperity and its fall, as well as their eventual hatred of humanity. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nameless_City



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