The Labyrinth of Sleep

"The Labyrinth of Sleep" is a short story by author Orrin Grey, first published in the anthology Future Lovecraft in November 2011.
==Synopsis==
When professional dreamer McCabe attempts to commit suicide, his friend Kendrick, also a professional dreamer, travels to the recently-discovered labyrinth of sleep to find out why the now-comatose man chose such a course of action. He eventually locates his old colleague and learns the secret of the labyrinth: that it is a dream created not by humans, but by an ancient entity entirely incomprehensible to mankind.
==Behind the Mythos==
Despite containing no direct references to Lovecraft's work or the greater Cthulhu Mythos, "The Labyrinth of Sleep" does contain some nods to earlier works; the dreamers are mentioned as travelling through the "wall of sleep", while the machine which enables them to do so is referred to as a "silver key". Also, the leviathan glimpsed by Kendrick at the story's conclusion is clearly implied to be Azathoth, the Blind Idiot God.
==Publication History==
*Future Lovecraft (2011)
*Whispers from the Abyss Vol. 2: The Horrors That Are & Shall Be (2015)
*Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts (2015)
Category:Orrin Grey works
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works