 Every night for many years the man gazes from his window upon the stars, until he comes over time to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity.One night the gulf between his world and the stars is bridged, and his mind ascends from his body out unto the boundless cosmos.Lovecraft described his planned novel as a "weird Eastern tale in the 18th century manner" and as a "weird "Vathek"-like novel", referring to a novel of Arabia written by William Thomas Beckford in 1786.