Which Lovecraft Places Cannot Be Found on a Map?

Eleven localities on file carry the UNLOCATABLE stamp. It is the Archive's way of recording a place that the witness could not find a second time, declined to name, or reached by a route that is not a route. It is a different stamp from SUPPRESSED, which marks a place that exists and has been scrubbed from the maps, and from UNCHARTED, which marks a place no survey has reached. Of the eleven, four are on the waking-world chart, five on the Dreamlands chart and two are beyond any chart.

On the waking-world chart

• The Rue d'Auseil, Paris. The street of a student's lodging and a viol player's garret. The witness could never find it again, and the Survey draws a faded pin over Paris to say so.
• The Undisclosed Tomb. A tomb in a very old cemetery whose location the sole surviving witness withheld on purpose. A bystander saw the two men on the Gainesville pike heading toward Big Cypress Swamp, and no state is given.
• The Squire's Alley, Greenwich Village. A pocket of pre-Revolutionary New York found once, after dark, and never retraced.
• The Sunless Castle. A fortress whose only occupant never named it or placed it on a map. It is filed here and charted nowhere.

On the Dreamlands chart

• Unknown Kadath. A cold waste beyond the Plateau of Leng, at the top edge of the chart and half off it.
• Cathuria. The paradise beyond the basalt pillars of the West, which no ship that sailed for it has been confirmed to reach.
• Aira. A marble city of fountains that exists only in one searcher's telling.
• The Moon, far side. Reached from Dylath-Leen aboard the black galleys of the moon-beasts, and drawn as an inset off the main chart.
• Hatheg-Kla. The peak in the stony desert beyond Hatheg where the earth's gods are said to gather.

Beyond any chart

• Yaddith. Another world entirely, reached by transference of mind and not by travel.
• The Doomed City. A great city never named in its account, which comes apart in step with the demonstrations of Nyarlathotep.

The Field Survey draws each of these with a marker of its own kind so that a pin is never mistaken for a position. For the places that were scrubbed and not lost, see the Dispatch on whether Arkham is genuine.