The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941, please see separate entry) reveals the dark aspects of Providence, but The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath reveals the bright aspects of Boston. The novel begins with Randolph Carter dreaming of a "marvellous city": "All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows." Carter yearns to walk in this dream-city, Kadath, and sets out on a daring quest to find it in the Dream World, a physical dimension open to the human spirit, as well as to the Elder Gods, cats, and other mystical beings. After many exotic adventures and some narrow.....
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