title: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath: And Other Oneiric Works (Tomb of Lovecraft)
author: H P LOVECRAFT
description: Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Lovecraft's guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. He is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH
  
  
  Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was
  he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. 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
  delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows;
  while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and old peaked
  gables harbouring little lanes of grassy cobbles. It was a fever of the gods,
  a fanfare of supernal trumpets and a clash of immortal cymbals. Mystery hung
  about it as clouds about a fabulous unvisited mountain; and as Carter stood
  breathless and expectant on that balustraded parapet there swept up to him the
  poignancy and suspense of almost-vanished memory, the pain of lost things and
  the madden