Through the gates of the silver key
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price
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- Language: English
- Content type: Fiction
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price is a short story written between October 1932 and April 1933. This cosmic horror tale follows the mysterious fate of Randolph Carter, who vanished after using a mystical artifact. A robed swami recounts Carter's journey beyond spacetime, where he encounters ancient beings and confronts the ultimate nature of existence itself. His wish to explore an alien consciousness on a distant world leads to catastrophic consequences, trapping him in an unimaginable predicament that transcends human comprehension. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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