Drunk on Dream

"Drunk on Dream" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Jeffrey Thomas. It was first published in the Cody Goodfellow/Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.-edited anthology New Maps of Dream by PS Publishing in July 2021 Title: "Drunk on Dream" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
In the aftermath of a messy breakup, the unnamed narrator turns to alcohol in an effort to forget about his former lover. After a while it dawns on him that, while passed out, his consciousness visits another plane of existence in which he can control the landscape. During one of these nighttime excursions, he believes he glimpses his ex and, upon waking, resolves to seek her out on future trips in an effort to rekindle their romance.
Unfortunately for the man, he soon comes to the realisation that the alcohol is his only vector for entering this other realm and, in a drunken stupor one evening, accidentally causes a car crash which results in his death.
==Behind the Mythos==
Although "Drunk on Dream" contains hints but no explicit references to H. P. Lovecraft's works, the realm the man visits is intended to be the Dreamlands: this was made clear in the publisher's description for the chapbook collection The Offspring of Nightmares (2022, Forma Street Press) The Offspring of Nightmares product description at Amazon. Some of the elements described in the story include large creatures possessing vertical mouths full of teeth, presumably Gugs, and flying humanoid monstrosities with blank faces, most probably Night-gaunts.
==Publication History==
*New Maps of Dream (2021, PS Publishing)
*The Offspring of Nightmares (2022, Forma Street Press)
==References==
Category:Jeffrey Thomas works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works