Eventually Carter’s ship comes in, and sure enough, the sailors aboard it clearly possess traits putting them in the same ethnicity as the godlike features of Ngranek. You might expect Carter to rush these guys and be all, omg, take … Continue reading →
Kuranes, like Carter, is a dreamer from the waking world, not a native of the Dreamlands. There are a few key differences between them, though. Last time Carter saw Kuranes, the latter was splitting his time between the rose-crystal Palace … Continue reading →
Lovecraft describes the vast trading city of Hlanith as follows. Fast Facts! Hlanith! 1) It’s at the mouth of the Oukianos river and on the Cerenian Sea. 2) It’s a dull city, all granite walls and A-frames and the wharves … Continue reading →
Carter fills the cats in on the looming zoog threat, and the cats are all, yo, let’s take them out premptively! So they do. The cats swarm into the woods, mob the zoogs, demand unconditional surrender, and get it. Lovecraft … Continue reading →
Carter reflects that he’s happy to be back in familiar territory. Once again he stands in the Enchanted Forest of the zoogs, though there aren’t any zoogs around, because they’re scared of the passage down to the land of the … Continue reading →
He crawls through tunnels again to get to the land of the Gugs, in the company of three ghouls and a headstone (Col. Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem) in case they need to … Continue reading →
Hours of chafing, blistering climbing later, Carter reaches the top of the ladder, at what Lovercraft calls a crag high over Pnath. I was under the impression that a crag was a climbable cliff surface, but what he describes is … Continue reading →
It gets dark quick up there where the air is thin, and Carter’s not equipped to climb down (or up) in the black of night. He stretches out on the ledge, in the cold, and waits for morning. Stars come … Continue reading →
As Carter climbs Mount Ngranek he’s reassured by occasional signs that pumice-gatherers have come this way before him. Handholds, marks carved in the rock, that kind of thing. He sees little quarries and excavations where some choice vein or stream … Continue reading →
Carter stays for a time in Baharna as the houseguest of the captain of the ship that brought him to the city, and after the captain leaves again without him he stays for a while longer in a hotel in … Continue reading →
