The Silver Key

"The Silver Key"
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Title page of "The Silver Key" as it appeared in Weird Tales, January 1929. Illustration by Hugh Rankin.[1]
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Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy, weird fiction
Publication
Published in	Weird Tales
Publication date	January 1929

"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and was followed by a sequel, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", co-written with E. Hoffmann Price. The story and its sequel both feature Lovecraft's recurring character of Randolph Carter as the protagonist.