# The silver key

Author: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70478

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+silver+key+Lovecraft&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key to the gate of dreams. Prior to that time he had made up for the prosiness of life by nightly excursions to strange and ancient cities beyond space, and lovely, unbelievable garden lands across ethereal seas; but as middle age hardened upon him he felt these liberties slipping away little by little, until at last he was cut off altogether. No more could his galleys sail up the river Oukranos past the gilded spires of Thran, or his elephant caravans tramp through perfumed jungles in Kled, where forgotten palaces with veined ivory columns sleep lovely and unbroken under the moon.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-silver-key-70478/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-silver-key-70478/chapters/2/index.md)