H.P. Lovecraft, if he was still among the living, would have turned one hundred and thirty-four today. In honor of that, I'll take a quick look at an artistic tribute to HPL's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath .

"… I’m going to take a quick look at a Lovecraft work slightly off the trail of cosmic horror: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Like Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, I consider ‘Dream-Quest’ to be a flawed, but imaginatively powerful, novella/short novel of fantasy adventure with elements of cosmic horror.

I have a fair amount to say regarding ‘Dream-Quest’ (and the Dreamlands tales in general), but that is for another day. Tonight, I want to look at an artistic tribute to HPL’s novel: Tom Sutton’s 1978 portfolio, ‘The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath’…"

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    One of my favourite work. The whole book is literally a crazy mind trip, I love it.

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      This is also one of my absolute favourites! Really not digging the illustrations in the link though. None of them really sit right in my mind for some reason.