The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft

Undaunted, Carter resolves to beseech the gods in person at Kadath, the mountain above which the gods of dream live. After the third time the city appears in his dreams, he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the city's whereabouts, but then the city vanishes from his dreams altogether. In his dreams, Randolph Carter sees a majestic city, but is unable to approach it. Joshi, is published by Arkham House in At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels and by Penguin Classics in The Dreams in the Witch-House and Other Weird Stories. The definitive version, with corrected text by S. Currently, it is published by Ballantine Books in an anthology that also includes ' The Silver Key' and ' Through the Gates of the Silver Key'.

The story was published posthumously by Arkham House in 1943. The Dream-Quest combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankind's ability to dream. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing.

It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter.

Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on Januand it remained unrevised and unpublished in his lifetime. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath at Wikisource

The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft