The Dream Cycle refers to a series of stories by author H. P. Lovecraft^[1] These stories concern themselves with "The Dreamlands": a vast, alternate dimension that can be entered via dreams.

The Dreamlands is divided into four regions: the "West" (location of Steps of Deeper Slumber, the port of Dylath-Leen (largest city of the Dreamlands), the town of Ulthar (where no man may kill a cat), Hlanith (a coastal jungle city), Ilarnek (a desert trade capital), Mnar, the ruins of Sarnath and Enchanted Wood); the "South" (location of the isle of Oriab and the Fantastic Realms); the "East" is (location of the city Celephaïs, created from cloth by its monarch King Kuranes, the greatest of all recorded dreamers, and The Forbidden Lands) and "the North" (location of the Plateau of Leng, complete with man-eating spiders satyr-like beings known as the "Men of Leng").

Other locales include "The Underworld" (a subterranean region underneath the Dreamlands and inhabited by monsters), the "Moon" (accessible via a ship and inhabited by "moon-beasts", creatures allied with Nyarlathotep and Kadath, a huge castle atop a mountain and the domain of the "Great Ones".

• Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft

• "Polaris" (1918)
• "The White Ship" (1919)
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (1919)
• "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1919)
• "The White Ship" (1919)
• "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920)
• "Celephaïs" (1920)
• "The Quest of Iranon" (1921)
• "The Other Gods" (1921)
• "Hypnos" (1922)
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926)
• "The Silver Key" (1926)
• "The Strange High House in the Mist" (1926)
• "At the Mountains of Madness" (reference only) (1931)
• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (with E. Hoffmann Price) (1932)

• Harms, Daniel (1998). "Dreamlands". The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed. ed.). Oakland, CA: Chaosium. pp. 89–91. ISBN 1-56882-119-0. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)