![]() Culbard mixes often dry conversations with flashbacks over the opening third of the book before being able to expand the scenery and the personnel, making good use of colour. ![]() Lovecraft’s fiction perpetuates tension via what’s hinted at, but barely seen, and this story does so more than most, everyone Carter meets warning him and relating their experiences. In his search for Kadath, Carter travels through many different landscapes, each with their own threat, and each drawn differently by I. With that threat hanging over him we wonder whether Carter is inordinately brave or inordinately foolhardy. In what’s one of Carter’s longest stories he strives to reach a place he’s dreamt of since childhood where he will meet the gods, having an awareness that while he’s dreaming, the consequences of his dream may harm him in reality. Randolph Carter features in several of Lovecraft’s stories, and is considered by scholars to be Lovercraft’s alter-ego, conceived at the time when he was also a struggling writer and experiencing vivid dreams. ![]() Like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it was only published posthumously, yet is regarded by fans as a supremely imaginative blending of fantasy and horror. Lovecraft wrote The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and discarded it, not even bothering to make revisions to a first draft. ![]() Not every author is the best judge of their own work. ![]()
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