"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales.

Inside, wrapped in a discoloured parchment, was a huge key of tarnished silver covered with cryptical arabesques; but of any legible explanation there was none. The parchment was voluminous, and held only the strange hieroglyphs of an unknown tongue written with an …

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An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia compares "The Silver Key" to Lovecraft's early story "The Tomb", whose narrator, Jervas Dudley, also "discovers in his attic a physical key that allows him to unlock the secrets of the past."

Mar 15, 2025 · The Silver Key "Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."

Clue of the Silver Key is a 1961 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook and Finlay Currie. [2] The screenplay was by Philip Mackie based on the 1930 Edgar Wallace novel of the same title. [3]

Jan 18, 2025 · This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930. The longest-living author of this work died in 1937, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright …

Randolph Carter, who had all his life sought to escape from the tedium and limitations of waking reality in the beckoning vistas of dreams and fabled avenues of other dimensions, disappeared from the sight of man on the seventh of October, 1928, at the age of fifty-four.

Apr 6, 2023 · "The Silver Key" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows the character Randolph Carter, who grapples with the loss of his ability to access the mystical realms of dreams he once traversed in his youth.

Apr 6, 2023 · Inside, wrapped in a discolored parchment, was a huge key of tarnished silver covered with cryptical arabesques; but of any legible explanation there was none. The parchment was voluminous, and held only the strange hieroglyphs of …