Ι.N.J.
CULLBARD

THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

Translation Thomas Mastakouris

“Three times I dreamed of the marvellous city… three times I turned back.”

Driven by an obsessive longing to return to the city he once glimpsed in his dreams, Randolph Carter leaves behind the banality of everyday life and journeys into a vivid dreamworld where anything is possible. But as he draws closer to his destination — the mysterious Kadath, dwelling place of the gods themselves — another force begins to follow him, dark and menacing, pursuing designs of its own.

An epic fantasy tale blending adventure, peril, and the uncanny, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath explores memory and forbidden knowledge through the boundless imagination of H. P. Lovecraft.

Pages
144
Author
Ι.N.J.
CULLBARD
ISBN
978-960-521-382-4
Translation
Thomas Mastakouris
Dimensions
16.5
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24

“I see you, Randolph Carter…”

Although unpublished during the lifetime of H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is the longest and most ambitious of the author’s Dream Cycle works. Written in 1926–27, the novella was never revised by Lovecraft himself, preserving the fluid, elusive logic of the dreams it portrays. Alongside The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it is regarded as one of the major achievements of this especially fertile period in the author’s career.

The story follows the wanderings of Randolph Carter through a world of breathtaking — and at times terrifying — landscapes, populated by unexpected allies and grotesque monsters. Lovecraft blends horror and fantasy into an epic narrative shaped by the wild leaps of imagination and logic through which dreams themselves are formed. Drawing heavily on earlier Lovecraft stories, both in theme and character, the novel may not strictly belong to the “Cthulhu Mythos,” yet it remains deeply connected to the wider imaginative universe of the author.

Randolph Carter, who appears in several of Lovecraft’s works, is clearly an idealised reflection of the writer himself: a romantic, cultivated man more at ease within the landscapes of dream and imagination than in the world of ordinary reality. Here, as an explorer of dreams, he shifts constantly between passive observer and active participant — just as we all do within our own dreams.

I. N. J. Culbard captures this duality masterfully in a vivid graphic adaptation that streamlines Lovecraft’s narrative while bringing to life its uncanny fusion of the surreal, the menacing, and the fantastic.

“…I see you!”

 
 
 
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