Celephais Summary

Kurane, an unhappy inhabitant of London, is a dreamer. He is the last of his family and is not attached to the modern world where, he believes, myth has been sucked out of the life of modern men. Despairing of his life in England, Kurane's dreams of a magical world named Celephais. Celephais is in the valley of Ooth-Nargai beside the Cerenerian Sea beyond the Tanarian hills. In Celephais, there is no time, only eternal youth. In Celephais, Kurnae wants to sail to find new land, and so he hires a sailor named Athib ot take him on his ship. The two men sail on the Cerenarian Sea and enter the harbor of Serannian, the pink marble city, before Kurane finds himself awake again in his London garret.

For months after this visit, Kurane tries to find some way back to Celephais. He...