Hello everyone and welcome to Week Nine of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week’s thread is for the discussion of the three stories from last week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.

Our reading for this week is a single story, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It is Lovecraft’s first novella-length Dreamlands story and ties together many of the disconnected stories that we’ve read in previous weeks. The PDF is available via the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided once again by the talented HorrorBabble here.

The Silver Key used in the OP was created by the Rhode Island based sculptor Gage Prentiss

  • Zo0@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks! That’s neat, do I need to read anything before going into next weeks book? :)

    • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath pieces together a lot of disconnected pieces from the stories that preceded. They’ve all been covered in this book club. I wouldn’t say that any of them are required to appreciate the story. If you want to read it with the context we have from the book club, the 3 main stories are The Cats of Ulthar (3 pages), Celephaïs (5 pages), and The Other Gods (4 pages). The rest of the tales have some manner of nod in the story. While not in the Dream Cycle, Pickman’s Model (11 pages) gets a nod as one of Carter’s friends in the waking world has made a semi-permanent transition into dream.

      • Zo0@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the comprehensive answer :) I’ll try to read up for next week!