Irem
cityThe City of Pillars, dreaming hidden and untouched amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where old Castro placed the center of the cult, and whose legendary antiquity is eclipsed by the far older nameless city.
Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched amid the pathless deserts of Arabia.
It owes its place in the record to Castro's confession: asked of the cult, he said he thought its center lay in those deserts where Irem dreams.
A fresco found within the nameless city depicted a primitive-looking man, perhaps a pioneer of ancient Irem, being torn to pieces by members of the older race — a scene suggesting that even Irem's fabled age was young beside the nameless city's own.
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“Of the cult, he said that he thought the center lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“one terrible final scene showed a primitive-looking man, perhaps a pioneer of ancient Irem, the City of Pillars, torn to pieces by members of the older race”
The Nameless City (1921)