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''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' is a novella by Creator/HPLovecraft. Completed in 1927 but unpublished in his lifetime, it finally saw print in 1943. It is both the longest of his stories and a massive {{Crossover}} between the characters and locations of his Dream Cycle. It touches on concepts, places, and characters introduced in earlier stories such as "The Cats of Ulthar", "Celephaïs", and "Pickman's Model", and is itself followed by the events of "The Silver Key" and "Literature/ThroughTheGatesOfTheSilverKey".
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''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' is a novella by Creator/HPLovecraft. Completed in 1927 but unpublished in his lifetime, it finally saw print in 1943. It is both the longest of his stories and a massive {{Crossover}} between the characters and locations of his Dream Cycle. It touches on concepts, places, and characters introduced in earlier stories such as "The Cats of Ulthar", "Literature/TheCatsOfUlthar", "Celephaïs", and "Pickman's Model", "Literature/PickmansModel", and is itself followed by the events of "The Silver Key" and "Literature/ThroughTheGatesOfTheSilverKey".
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''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' is a novella by Creator/HPLovecraft. Completed in 1927 but unpublished in his lifetime, it finally saw print in 1943. It is both the longest of his stories and a massive {{Crossover}} between the characters and locations of his Dream Cycle.
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''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' is a novella by Creator/HPLovecraft. Completed in 1927 but unpublished in his lifetime, it finally saw print in 1943. It is both the longest of his stories and a massive {{Crossover}} between the characters and locations of his Dream Cycle.
Cycle. It touches on concepts, places, and characters introduced in earlier stories such as "The Cats of Ulthar", "Celephaïs", and "Pickman's Model", and is itself followed by the events of "The Silver Key" and "Literature/ThroughTheGatesOfTheSilverKey".
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* BadassBoast: When sending Carter off on his final mission, Nyarlathotep tells him to "pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms."
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* MonsterMouth: Most people have mouths that run left-to-right across their faces. Gugs' mouths run up-and-down.
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* MonsterMouth: Most people have mouths that run left-to-right across their faces. Gugs' mouths run up-and-down.vertically along their faces rather than horizontally.
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* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: Ghouls are a secretive living species, rather than undead or demons.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Possibly zoogs and vooniths, which are undescribed, and ''definitely'' nightguants and gugs.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Possibly zoogs and vooniths, which are undescribed, and ''definitely'' nightguants and gugs.
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* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: Ghouls are a hideous and secretive species of living species, rather than undead or demons.
creatures with a gibbering and gleeping language. However, they are as honorable a people as any Carter meets.
* OurMonstersAreWeird:Possibly zoogs The various creatures of the Dreamland are bizarre and vooniths, which otherworldly. Even the relatively honorable ones, like ghouls, are undescribed, and ''definitely'' nightguants and gugs.physically repulsive.
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* SceneryPorn: The story could be alternatively titled ''Scenery Porn: The Novella''. The sunset city, for one; the story begins with Carter's lush dreams about its beautiful landscape.
* ShiningCity: Carter's marvellous city consists of everything that he ever loved, distilled to its purest form.
* ShiningCity: Carter's marvellous city consists of everything that he ever loved, distilled to its purest form.
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* SceneryPorn: The story could be alternatively titled ''Scenery Porn: The Novella''. Various locations throughout the Dreamland are described in striking detail. The sunset city, for one; the story begins with city is described in such sumptuous and majestic terms that it's easy to understand Carter's lush dreams about its beautiful landscape.
obsession with getting there.
* ShiningCity:Carter's marvellous The marvelous sunset city consists of everything that he ever loved, Carter glimpses in his dreams and spends the whole novella trying to reach is actually his distilled to its purest form.memories of Boston viewed through the prism of his childhood wonder.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Atypically for a Lovecraft story, ''Kadath'''s conclusion is neither a DownerEnding nor a BittersweetEnding: Carter escapes the evil's clutches and ultimately fulfills his goal. Then again, the next chapter in Carter's life, ''The Silver Key'', introduces him to a new challenge.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Atypically for a Lovecraft story, ''Kadath'''s conclusion is neither a DownerEnding nor a BittersweetEnding: Carter escapes the evil's clutches and ultimately fulfills his goal. Then again, the next chapter in Carter's life, ''The Silver Key'', introduces him to a new challenge.
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* VaginaDentata: The MonsterMouth of a gug has an undeniable similiarity to this trope, though Lovecraft is too proper to comment on it overtly.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Randolph Carter is perfectly fine with the cats eating the zoogs that have been following him, because he likes cats a lot better... and because the zoogs have been threatening to [[EatsBabies eat a kitten]].
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* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: WhatMeasureIsANonCute:
** Randolph Carter is perfectly fine with the cats eating the zoogs that have been following him, because he likes cats a lot better... and because the zoogs have been threatening to [[EatsBabies eat akitten]].kitten]].
** Carter receives significant aid from the ghouls along his journeys without really providing anything in return. Despite all that, he finds them hard to be around because of how hideous they are.
** Randolph Carter is perfectly fine with the cats eating the zoogs that have been following him, because he likes cats a lot better... and because the zoogs have been threatening to [[EatsBabies eat a
** Carter receives significant aid from the ghouls along his journeys without really providing anything in return. Despite all that, he finds them hard to be around because of how hideous they are.
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* ChekhovsGun: Carter is presented with moon wine by the zoogs, and he later uses it to bribe Atal (read: to get him shitfaced) in exchange for more information about the places of the gods, specifically Mount Ngranek on Oriab Island.
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* ChekhovsGun: Carter is presented with moon wine by the zoogs, and he later uses it to bribe Atal (read: to get him shitfaced) in exchange for more information loosen Atal's lips about the places of the gods, specifically Mount Ngranek on Oriab Island.
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* AuthorAppeal: The village of Ulthar features a large population of cats, which are held sacred by the villagers, and Carter later enlists the help of an army of those animals. Lovecraft was a notorious cat lover.
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* AuthorAppeal: AuthorAppeal:
** The village of Ulthar features a large population of cats, which are held sacred by the villagers, and Carter later enlists the help of an army of those animals. Lovecraft was a notorious catlover.lover.
** The sunset city is revealed to be Carter's idealized memories of his home city of Boston. When Carter awakens, the narration gives another glowing descriptions of Boston's sensual delights. Lovecraft was himself in love with New England, which plays a major role in most of his fiction.
** The village of Ulthar features a large population of cats, which are held sacred by the villagers, and Carter later enlists the help of an army of those animals. Lovecraft was a notorious cat
** The sunset city is revealed to be Carter's idealized memories of his home city of Boston. When Carter awakens, the narration gives another glowing descriptions of Boston's sensual delights. Lovecraft was himself in love with New England, which plays a major role in most of his fiction.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted. Carter speaks in fantasy languages when traveling the Dreamlands so much that he is relieved to encounter Pickman as they are both American and can speak in their own language.
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** The inhuman shipmen are revealed to devour the black slaves they trade their ruby stones for. Carter finds this out in a creepy IAteWhat moment (averted, he throws it out).
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** The inhuman shipmen are revealed to devour the black slaves they trade their ruby stones for. Carter finds this out in a creepy IAteWhat moment (averted, he throws it out).moment.
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* PlotPoweredStamina: Averted, even when it would have been possible to {{Handwave}} considering the story takes place in a dream. Carter gets so tired while ascending the stairs from the land of the gugs that his ghoul guards have to help him up.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: When Nyarlathotep finally appears in person, he speaks to Carter quite cordially and claims to be a lot less malicious than his various worshippers; all he really cares about is maintaining order in the universe. [[spoiler: He's lying through his teeth to send Carter into the maws of the Other Gods.]]
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Everythings Better With Kangaroos redirects to Kangaroos Represent Australia, which doesn't fit the example.
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* EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos: Ghasts are described as deformed kangaroos.
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* EvilSmellsBad: The moon-beasts smell vile, so much that a galley full of them sailing into port drives most people around to smoke the strongest-smelling tobacco to cover the stench.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leader of the moon-beasts does a rather epic LastStand on Sarkomand Island, felling several ghouls before being killed.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: The leader of the moon-beasts does a rather epic LastStand on Sarkomand Island, felling several ghouls before being killed.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Atal returns from ''The Cats of Ulthar'' and ''The Other Gods'' and talks with Carter about those stories and his own quest with Barzai. Richard Pickman from ''Pickman’s Model'' and Kuranes from ''Celephais'' appear as well.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Atal returns from ''The Cats of Ulthar'' and ''The Other Gods'' and talks with Carter about those stories and his own quest with Barzai. Richard Pickman from ''Pickman’s Model'' and Kuranes from ''Celephais'' appear as well. While only referenced, it is also revealed that the legendary land of Cathuria sought by the narrator of ''The White Ship'' is known by wise dreamers as a trap that leads to [[FateWorseThanDeath "awful voids outside the ordered universe" where Azathoth gnaws mindlessly]].
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* TheLostWoods: The first place in the quest is the Enchanted Forest, a dark place infested with fungus and zoogs.
