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
Oh Hello! Is this a Lovecraft bookclub sort of thing? If so I’d love to participate but I couldn’t find any rules or guidelines on the about page
Welcome to the club. It’s unofficial and very loosely run so there aren’t really any guidelines. If you can see the older posts on the instance, we set some reading for the week ahead and then discuss them the following week. Admittedly engagement has been a bit sparse.
If you can see them, feel free to jump into any thread and post about the relevant reading. I’d be happy to jump about and respond to you. There’s no time limit on joining the discussion.
Thanks! That’s neat, do I need to read anything before going into next weeks book? :)
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.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer :) I’ll try to read up for next week!