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The Nameless City, now defunct in part of the Arabian Peninsula, tells the tale of a civilization run by reptilian creatures long before the dawn of humanity. It describes how they lived, worked, and ran until the ocean receded. Desertlike conditions bring about the downfall of the civilization, and this is documented by the author of the Necronomicon. Despite this downfall, their hieroglyphs remain, and it is rumored that deep beneath the surface, some reptilian creatures remain, too.

The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula to seek out and enter a lost city. After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The next day, the narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use. While he attends to his suddenly nervous camel, the narrator discovers a somewhat larger temple, with altars, painted murals, and a small staircase going down.

In this atmospheric horror story, the city of the title is the ruin of a primordial site in the Arabian desert, thought to be more ancient than the first human civilization. In its heyday, the city flourished on the edge of the ocean. The inhabitants were a species of reptile looking like a hybrid of crocodile and seal, but with horns and protruding foreheads. They moved by crawling, so the remaining buildings have low ceilings.

Relata la historia de un arqueólogo que, tras oír los mitos y leyendas que rodean la "ciudad sin nombre", ubicada en algún sitio recóndito del desierto de Arabia, decide ir a buscarla. Al llegar descubre que está desierta (o eso creyó en un principio ) y que su extraña arquitectura no corresponde a las necesidades humanas. Tras explorar descubre que sus constructores fueron, en realidad, seres ancestrales, grotescos, de aspecto reptiliano, acaso llegados desde las profundidades del universo. Seres que todavía la habitan.