About this episode

The episode features 'The Doom That Came to Sarnath', a Dream Cycle story by H. P. Lovecraft about a city's rise and its forgotten consequences.

THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH is a Dream Cycle story, first published in The Scot in June 1920. "A mighty and prosperous city that once annihilated an ancient lake-dwelling race rises to unparalleled splendour, only to confront the long-forgotten consequences of its sacrilege a thousand years later."

Topics covered

• Dream Cycle
• H. P. Lovecraft
• fiction
• horror

Keywords

• Sarnath
• sacrilege
• ancient race
• prosperous city

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Doom That Came to, THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

Places: Sarnath

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