![]() Yet, when I enter Lovecraft’s land of “dream,” I feel like a person wading through a bog, sliding my foot along a hidden rail of oddly compelling, incomprehensible sense. Finally, he favors pretentiously and anachronistically twisted syntax. His prose is crammed with value-laden adjectives like terrible, shocking, frightful his characters are flat and don’t evolve there’s little dialogue, and there’s a lot of summarized action. Lovecraft’s style in The Dream-Quest is annoying and boring. Turns out, her interest in Lovecraft is timely, so this month, I’ll focus on Lovecraft, and next month I’ll focus on Nebula and Hugo award winning Kij Johnson. However, Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, based on Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, obliged me to read him. Does an overtly racist writer deserve the energy it takes to write about them? I’m not sure. ![]()
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