Beyond the Wall of Sleep
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Average rating3.8
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. Inspiration Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an April 27, 1919 article in the New York Tribune. Reporting on the New York state police, the article cited a family named Slater or Slahter as representative of the backwards Catskills population. The nova mentioned at the end of Lovecraft's story is a real star, known as GK Persei; the quotation is from Garrett P. Serviss' Astronomy with the Naked Eye (1908). The title of the story may have been influenced by Ambrose Bierce's "Beyond the Wall"; Lovecraft was known to be reading Bierce in 1919. Jack London's 1906 novel Before Adam, which concerns the concept of hereditary memory, contains the passage, "Nor...did any of my human kind ever break through the wall of my sleep."
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Interesting story from H. P. Lovecraft. I enjoyed this one, though not as much as some of his previous works.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a pretty short short story - perhaps a bit too short. As the title implies, it explores the what-if regarding the dream world.
The story follows a medical officer's observations of a rustic patient at an asylum, who is prone to outbursts of strange descriptions and exhortations of what appears to be his dreams.
While it has the same style of prose as the other short stories, I can't feel any sort of creepy vibe out of this. It's a nice quick read but it lacks that induced prickly sensation. Perhaps it's the imaginary, since they are not presented as horrifying but instead meant to be beautiful and otherworldly.
I wouldn't recommend this as an entry into Lovecraft's works, as it is somewhat of a different vibe from the others.
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