It’s wholly unengaging as nothing in the story feels like it matters.
This is HP Lovecraft at his most free-flowing and least horrific, and yet completely uninteresting too. Everything that happens along the way is similarly confusing and random so it’s hard to care about any of it. It’s a quest story where the end goal is never very clear and the resolution is puzzling. And that’s why it leaves so slight an impression. Like a dream, you can’t really make sense of the story, you can only let it wash over you. He sets sail on flying ships full of humanoid monsters, meets the Cats of Ulthar (who, of course, also talk) all so he can travel to a mountain with a face on the side. anything goes! Carter rocks up in a forest of giant mushrooms with talking rodents.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is plotted using dream logic, ie. His nutty friend tells him to pray to the dream gods or something and they’ll let him find it again (!?). Lovecraft, as well as the related stories "The White Ship," "Celephais”, "The Strange High House in the Mist" and “The Doom That Came to Sarnath”.Randolph Carter dreams of a sunset city and decides to go looking for it(?!). Includes a full comic adaptation of the novel by H.P. From the jungles of Kled to the surface of the moon, through perilous encounters with bat-winged nightgaunts and man-eating ghouls, Carter's quest takes him ever closer to the secret of the marvellous sunset city…and the terror of Nyarlathotep and Azathoth, the monstrous Other Gods who stand in his way. In search of a lost city and a forgotten memory, Randolph Carter enters the dreamlands, the vast world of wonder and horror where one night can span a million years. Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city…and three times he was snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. It’s a faithful adaptation and one that should satisfy even the most ardent of Lovecraft admirers." "Thompson has a clear love and respect for the source material and draws the picaresque fantasy in an ornate and heavily-rendered style.
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