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"And before the day was done Carter saw that the steersman could have no other goal than the Basalt Pillars of the West, beyond which simple folk say splendid Cathuria lies, but which wise dreamers well know are the gates of a monstrous cataract wherein the oceans of earth's dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe. (...) It was dark when the galley passed betwixt the Basalt Pillars of the West and the sound of the ultimate cataract swelled portentous from ahead. (...) Then with a queer whistle and plunge the leap was taken, and Carter felt the terrors of nightmare as earth fell away and the great boat shot silent and comet-like into planetary space."
~ H. P. Lovecraft: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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H. P. Lovecraft is best known for his horror stories, but the Dream-Quest, perhaps my favourite of his works, is more of a fantasy, though with some horror elements. It is full of beautiful descriptions and it masterfully weaves together elements of the earlier stories from Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.