When Carter comes to, he finds the cats in the middle of looting the wicked city of the freaky monsters. They’re happy to see him, too, inasmuch as they remember him from Ulthar. The little black kitten who befriended him … Continue reading →
Horrible, demon-haunted space. Carter panics for a second, but it’s okay, it’s okay, the ship is just going to the moon, not out to meet Azathoth or Nyarlathotep. Specifically the ship flies towards that secret and mysterious side which is … Continue reading →
Carter has to wait a month for a ship from Oriab. He tries to spend the time productively, asking after Kadath and his mysterious dream-city, but nobody admits to knowing anything. One old merchant looks all shifty and changes the … Continue reading →
Carter brought along some of the moon-tree-sap wine from the zoogs, and offers it to Atal, and gets him good and drunk. Robbed of his reserve, poor Atal babbled freely of forbidden things. A long ways to the south, he … Continue reading →
The Skai river valley is a pleasant-sound place, all farms and chimneys and cottages and dogs. The dogs bark at the zoogs still trailing Carter, but he ignores them. He stops at a farmhouse and asks the people there if … Continue reading →
This first stop of Carter’s, the Enchanted Wood, holds a small nation of zoogs, nebulously-described nonhuman sapient entities small and brown and unseen that live in burrows. The Enchanted Wood touches the waking world in two places, says Lovecraft, though … Continue reading →
There’s a guy named Randolph Carter. Carter has experienced a recurring dream, in which he walked through a glorious city, impossibly beautiful. The dream ends abruptly, before he’s ready for it to conclude, and it stirs up Carter’s deepest emotional … Continue reading →
Odds are good, if you’re reading this, that you’re already passing familiar with H.P. Lovecraft and “the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” but for the sake of anyone who isn’t, let me lay it all out. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) spent … Continue reading →
