While seeking passage there, Carter is kidnapped by turbaned slavers, who take him to the moon and deliver him to horrible moon-beasts, the servants of malevolent god Nyarlathotep. Carter realizes the gods' mortal descendants will share those features and presumably be near Kadath. In the cat-laden city of Ulthar, Atal mentions a huge mountainside carving of the gods' features. The Zoogs, a race of predatory rodents, direct him to Ulthar to find the priest Atal. They tell Carter that nobody knows the location of Kadath, and warn him of great danger should he continue with his quest to reach the city and suggest that the gods purposefully stopped his visions.Ĭarter's knowledge of Dreamlands customs and languages makes his quest comparatively less risky than if done by an amateur, but he must consult entities with a dangerous reputation. In dream, Carter consults priests in a temple that borders the Dreamlands.
Undaunted, Carter resolves to beseech the gods in person at Kadath, the mountain above which the gods of dream live. After the third time the city appears in his dreams, he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the city's whereabouts, but then the city vanishes from his dreams altogether. In his dreams, Randolph Carter sees a majestic city, but is unable to approach it. Joshi, is published by Arkham House in At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels and by Penguin Classics in The Dreams in the Witch-House and Other Weird Stories. The definitive version, with corrected text by S. Currently, it is published by Ballantine Books in an anthology that also includes " The Silver Key" and " Through the Gates of the Silver Key". The story was published posthumously by Arkham House in 1943. The Dream-Quest combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankind's ability to dream. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing.
It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on Januand it remained unrevised and unpublished in his lifetime. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H.
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