41. The Quest of Iranon
42. The Transition of Juan Romero
43. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
44. The Last Test
45. The Lurking Fear
46. The Horror at Martin's Beach
47. Medusa's Coil
48. The Moon-Bog
49. The Mound
50. At the Mountains of Madness
The Quest of Iranon
by H. P. Lovecraft
Written 28 Feb 1921
Published July-August 1935 in The Galleon, Vol. 1, No. 5, 12-20.
Into the granite city of Teloth wandered the youth, vine-crowned, his
yellow hair glistening with myrrh and his purple robe torn with briers of
the mountain Sidrak that lies across the antique bridge of stone. The men
of Teloth are dark and stern, and dwell in square houses, and with frowns
they asked the stranger whence he had come and what were his name and
fortune. So the youth answered:
"I am Iranon, and come from Aira, a far city that I recall only dimly but
seek to find again. I am a singer of songs that I learned in the far city,
and my calling is to make beauty with the things remembered of childhood.
My wealth is in little memories and dreams, and in hopes that I sing in
gardens when the moon is tender and the west wind stirs the lotus-buds."
When the men of Teloth heard these things they whispered to one another;
for though in the granite city there is no laughter or song, the stern men
sometimes look to the Karthian hills in the spring and think of the lutes
of distant Oonai whereof travellers have told. And thinking thus, they
bade the stranger stay and sing in the square before the Tower of Mlin,
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