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The Nameless City
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal ''The Wolverine''. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.〔Lin Carter cites four different lists of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories — including his own and August Derleth's — and though each differs slightly from the others, each begins with "The Nameless City". Carter, pp. 25–26.〕
==Inspiration==
Lovecraft said that the story was based on a dream, which was in turn inspired by the last line of Lord Dunsany's story "The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men", quoted in the story itself: "the unreverberate blackness of the abyss".〔H. P. Lovecraft, ''Selected Letters'' Vol. 1, p. 122; cited in Joshi and Schultz, pp. 181-182.〕
Another identified source is the 9th Edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', whose description of "Irem, the City of Pillars" he copied into his commonplace book: "which yet, after the annihilation of its tenants, remains entire, so Arabs say, invisible to ordinary eyes, but occasionally, and at rare intervals, revealed to some heaven-favoured traveller."〔Cited in Joshi and Schultz, p. 182.〕
Critic William Fulwiler argues that Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''At the Earth's Core'' was one of Lovecraft's primary inspirations for "The Nameless City", citing "the reptile race, the tunnel to the interior of the earth, and the 'hidden world of eternal day'" as elements common to both tales.〔William Fulwiler, "E.R.B. and H.P.L.", ''Black Forbidden Things'', Robert M. Price, ed., p. 62.〕 More generally, Fulwiler suggests, the theme of "alien races more powerful and more intelligent than man", which recurs frequently in Lovecraft's writings, may derive from Burroughs' Pellucidar stories.〔Fulwiler, p. 61.〕 However, both writers drew on an already existing and vast literature of "lost city" stories and novels.
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