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

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This is just all the parts in one big upload, so if you have been following along with each individual segment, there is nothing new to hear here.

Randolph Carter is a character in several stories, such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter", "The Silver Key", "The Unnameable", among others, and is mentioned in passing at the end of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".

Richard Upton Pickman appears throughout this story, and also has his own story: "Pickman's Model".

Nyarlathotep is an important character here, who features in a short story of that name, and appears in many other stories besides. Azathoth, of course, features in many stories, and a brief story fragment was written of that name.

Carter visits Ulthar, from "The Cats of Ulthar".

Olathoë and Lomar can be found in the story "Polaris", with passing references elsewhere.

The city of Celephaïs which features prominently in this story has its own entire story of that name, and also has passing references in some other stories.

The Other Gods mentioned repeatedly, along with Atal and Barzai the Wise, can be found in the story "The Other Gods". Atal also appears in "The Cats of Ulthar".

The Plateau of Leng is mentioned in passing in many other stories.

There are many other minor references sprinkled throughout, far too many to list all of them here.

Hippocephalic = having a head shaped like that of a horse.

'Grimalkin' is an archaic word for cat, especially an old, female cat.

Charles' Wain is what we today call the Big Dipper.

"Put out of the way" is a curious euphemism for killing.

Kalpa is the Sanskrit word for an aeon, specifically in relation to the lifetime of the universe.

The picture used for part 1 is an illustration specifically for this story by Jens Heimdahl, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

The picture used for part 2 is an earthrise picture taken during the Apollo 16 mission.

The picture used for part 3 is "Nightgaunt" by jaeTanaka, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The picture used for part 4 is "Gug Concept" by ItoSaithWebb, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The picture used for part 5 is of the city of Celephaïs - I could not find a credit or a copyright status for it, even image searches returned no more than two hits for it, neither of which gave ANY information about the picture. But I could find so few apropos pictures for this segment that I decided to risk it. If you recognize the picture and know it is not freely usable, let me know and I will remove it right away.

The picture used for part 6 is of Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes, son of Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden. I was looking for a late Victorian period Cornish nobleman, still on the young side, to represent King Kuranes of Celephais. This was what I could come up with.

The picture used for part 7 is "Shantak Bird Concept" by ItoSaithWebb, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The picture used for part 8 is "Moonbeast Concept" by ItoSaithWebb, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The picture used for part 9 is "Ghoul Concept" by ItoSaithWebb, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The picture used for part 10 is of an Antarctic night sky. There aren't really any good pictures of the night sky at the north pole, in no small part because there is no land there. I wanted a polar scene with mountains, which means the south pole. It'll have to do as a stand-in for the cold northern wastes of Kadath. Unfortunately, I could find no artist renderings of the onyx castle of the Great Ones, regardless of copyright status.

The picture used for part 11 is: Krita drawing - Nyarlathotep - The black man, The crawling Chaos, the Stalker among the Stars, the Black Pharaoh. From H.P. Lovecraft's strange universes. This piece is made in collaboration between the Scandinavian artist Katharsisdrill and the fractal artist Nyarlathotep. It is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)

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