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- Author
- H.P. Lovecraft
- First published
- 2014
- Editions
- 2
- Subjects
- Fiction, science fiction, general
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Genre
- horror literature
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Dream Cycle
- Image
- Hplovecraft-azathoth-manuscript.jpg
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- first line
- When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world’s dreams had fled.
- last line
- And in the course of many cycles they tenderly left him sleeping on a green sunrise shore; a green shore fragrant with lotus-blossoms and starred by red camalotes.
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Azathoth
- different from
- Azathoth
- form of creative work
- short story
- publication date
- 1938-00-00
- title
- Azathoth
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