H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

About this episode

The episode discusses H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath' and various related literary themes and works.

Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", independent presses, Victorian architecture, one-thing-after-another type of books, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom books, Edgar Allan Poe horror stories, graphic novel adapatations, recurring dreams and locations, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, weird townsfolk, barrel monsters, the Hexcrawl of Unknown Kadath, Gene Wolf and the Book of the New Sun, and much more!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi

Topics covered

• H.P. Lovecraft
• Victorian architecture
• graphic novel adaptations
• recurring dreams
• weird townsfolk

Keywords

• H.P. Lovecraft
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Barsoom
• graphic novels
• recurring dreams
• weird fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Barsoom, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Book of the New Sun

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