"The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson, first published April 1921 in the United Cooperative.

[1] As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft).

Determined to identify the origin of this sound, the narrator moves towards a window and observes a terrifying scene of fifty-foot waves and a seething vortex consuming the shoreline at an incredible rate.

Now all is over, and beyond the Arinurian streams, we shall dwell blissfully in Teloe.As the child speaks, the narrator observes two youths emerging from the leaves of the tree.

As they speak, the narrator observes that he is floating in the upper atmosphere, with the palm tree far below, and now accompanied by an increasing number of singing, vine-crowned youths.