Lovecraft is basically the grandfather of weird fiction, a name he gained for himself by writing the infamous Cthulhu mythos. But the tentacle monsters and aliens are far from the strangest thing Lovecraft wrote about. In fact, much of his life was spent on an entirely different body of literature: The Dream Cycle Let's take some time to appreciate the setting of his dream cycle stories, The Dreamlands. Who knows, we might even learn something in the process...