![]() ![]() In the story, a man finds and ventures into the titular Nameless City, which he believes he is the only human to ever enter. Lovecraft for his short story " The Nameless City". The inhabitants of the Nameless City are a fictional species created by H. Not Jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet the horns and the noselessness and the alligator-like jaw placed things outside all established categories. To nothing can such things be well compared - in one flash I thought of comparisons as varied as the cat, the bullfrog, the mythic Satyr, and the human being. But strangest of all were their heads, which presented a contour violating all know biological principles. ![]() In size they approximated a small man, and their fore-legs bore delicate and evident feet curiously like human hands and fingers. ![]() They were of the reptile kind, with body lines suggesting sometimes the crocodile, sometimes the seal, but more often nothing of which either the naturalist or the palaeontologist ever heard. ![]()
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