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Summary: What dreams are made of.
Review: One of my favorite stories of all time. A variety of the madness of Lovecraft. I always thought Stuart Gordon should have made this one into a movie complete with soundtrack containing the music of Mr. Bungle, System of a Down, and Fear Before the March of Flames. Ghouls, Ghast, and Nightgaunt city. If you liked Call of Cthulhu check this one out. If you liked this one check my poetry book out: Poisoned Mushrooms(Here at Amazon.com and at Authorhouse.com). I'm Jason Leonard and you have my word on it. We put the fear into legal fees. Around the country and in your neighborhood.
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Summary: An evocation of nostalgia: pure wizardry: pure beauty.
Review: One of the most beautiful books written, Lovecraft's story of the pursuit into the world of dreams, searching for the unknown city. Inspired by Lord Dunsunay and Windsor McKay's Little Nemo, but pure Lovecraft, and unequaled. The city of cats, the vast fantasy worlds; and an ending of aching beauty. I read it my second summer of college; and could not tell if I was dreaming. Read it!
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Summary: A guided tour through Lovecraft's Dreaming
Review: Randolph Carter is Lovecraft's only hero. He is an expert dreamer, who passes at will through the Gates of Deeper Slumber and openly defies the mythos. He rides Night Gaunts and communicates with Ghouls, Zoots and Cats. In this way, the Randolph Carter series is entirely unlike Lovecraft's other weird tales. The reader actually gets the feeling that things will work out for Randolph Carter.While to stories are different in tone, they are not different in content. In "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," Randolph Carter goes in search of Unknown Kadath, the mountainous home of the gods. In his long journey, he drifts in and out of other stories, encountering Richard Upton Pickman, the City of Celephais, the Cats of Ulthur and an enjoyable assortment of other characters. I advise you to read this story with other Lovecraft books at hand, to reference the cast of characters. Other tales in this volume complete the quests of Randolph Carter, and tell the stories of other journeys through the Dreamlands. Each story is enjoyable, mixing fancy and horror in equal measure. I recommend this book to fans of "The Sandman."
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Summary: A guided tour through Lovecraft's Dreaming
Review: Randolph Carter is Lovecraft's only hero. He is an expert dreamer, who passes at will through the Gates of Deeper Slumber and openly defies the mythos. He rides Night Gaunts and communicates with Ghouls, Zoots and Cats. In this way, the Randolph Carter series is entirely unlike Lovecraft's other weird tales. The reader actually gets the feeling that things will work out for Randolph Carter. While to stories are different in tone, they are not different in content. In "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," Randolph Carter goes in search of Unknown Kadath, the mountainous home of the gods. In his long journey, he drifts in and out of other stories, encountering Richard Upton Pickman, the City of Celephais, the Cats of Ulthur and an enjoyable assortment of other characters. I advise you to read this story with other Lovecraft books at hand, to reference the cast of characters. Other tales in this volume complete the quests of Randolph Carter, and tell the stories of other journeys through the Dreamlands. Each story is enjoyable, mixing fancy and horror in equal measure. I recommend this book to fans of "The Sandman."
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Summary: fountains of prismatic spray
Review: Something about Lovecraft's way of lifting us from the mundane into the n-dimensional other reality of dreamtime is beyond my meager vocabulary to explicate. I've been reading Lovecraft since grade school (very sick, I know) but this book is my favorite; I just wish they'd go back to the cover art from Gervasio Gallardo (Ballantine '74) which really evokes the feeling of magical weirdness you experience walking through this Kadath state. Please also check out Lovecraft's other works, as well as the writers who contributed to the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Summary: fountains of prismatic spray
Review: Something about Lovecraft's way of lifting us from the mundane into the n-dimensional other reality of dreamtime is beyond my meager vocabulary to explicate. I've been reading Lovecraft since grade school (very sick, I know) but this book is my favorite; I just wish they'd go back to the cover art from Gervasio Gallardo (Ballantine '74) which really evokes the feeling of magical weirdness you experience walking through this Kadath state. Please also check out Lovecraft's other works, as well as the writers who contributed to the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Summary: Lovecraft's most Dunsanian tale
Review: Strange realms operating under Randall Carter's dream logic.
The sound of yak bells across the distance of the cold waste, beyond which lies Kadath, lingers with me still.
Nyarlathotep warned of the dangers of the gods, whose concerns are not the same as ours, and who lust after the city of light out of Carter's youth. But Carter's journeys,
his encounter with Night Gaunts (of whom it is best not to
think too much), and his amazing rescue by the cats of Ulthar make this my favorite by Lovecraft. Be warned, however, that this is fantasy and not horror.
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Summary: An excellent cornerstone of Lovecraft's work
Review: The best part of this work for me - as a Lovecraft fan - was that I read it dead last of all his works of horror. The manner in which it ties together so many of his stories against a dreamy (literally) and flowing background made it an excellent way to close my reading of his work - the first time around, anyway. This is really best read in a lighter mood than normal for his stories; as others have pointed out, it is not his typical prose and seems to show some influence from his correspondance with Robert E. Howard (though I do not know if he had at this point in his career). It is an excellent read and way to bring many of his disparate stories together.
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Summary: An excellent cornerstone of Lovecraft's work
Review: The best part of this work for me - as a Lovecraft fan - was that I read it dead last of all his works of horror. The manner in which it ties together so many of his stories against a dreamy (literally) and flowing background made it an excellent way to close my reading of his work - the first time around, anyway. This is really best read in a lighter mood than normal for his stories; as others have pointed out, it is not his typical prose and seems to show some influence from his correspondance with Robert E. Howard (though I do not know if he had at this point in his career). It is an excellent read and way to bring many of his disparate stories together.
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Summary: Not Typical Lovecraft
Review: The cover misleads completely. This is Lovecraft working in the mode of Lord Dunsany-- not creeping horror or dark elder gods, but a more genteel and poetical fantasy in the classic "mortal wandering off into fairyland" mode. For Lovecraft completists, this is a fascinating look at what other sorts of work he could do when he chose to, but for folks who love his better horror stories, this will come as rather a disappointment.
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