"But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy." With a foreword by Peter Rawlik, and illustrated by K. L. Turner, Through the Gate of Deeper Slumber presents the thirteen stories that encompass Lovecraft's Dreamlands. This collection begins with "Polaris," Lovecraft's first foray into dream, in which the author begins to develop the landscape of the Dreamlands and the rules to which Great Dreamers are subject. The stories that follow represent years of Lovecraft's imaginings as he further defines not only the geography of dream, but its inhabitants, its gods and monsters, and the eldritch terrors that haunt its edges. Included are the hauntingly beautiful "Celephais," the nihilistic "Ex Oblivione," the iconic "The Cats of Ulthar," and the highly influential "The Strange High House in the Mist," and of course three tales of the Great Dreamer, Randolph Carter, stories; "The Silver Key," full of the melancholy of a man who has lost his dreams, the genre-defining The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and the genre-bending "Through the Gates of the Silver Key." Through the Gates of Deeper Slumber represents a triumph of Lovecraft's fantastic imaginings.