The Nameless City Howard Phillips Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

A lone traveler recounts his obsessive exploration of a ruined, cyclopean city in the desert whose impossible architecture and weathered stone hint at a civilization predating humanity; as he penetrates its passageways he is overcome by mounting dread, strange dreams, and a brief but horrified encounter with something that may still inhabit the darkness, forcing a panicked flight and leaving him haunted by the implication of ancient, inhuman presences that refuse to stay buried.

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