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Hei! Aa-shanta ’nygh! ¡Eres libre! ¡Devuelve a los Dioses de la tierra a su hogar en la ignota Kadath! Y ruega para que jamás llegues a conocerme en alguna de mis otras mil encarnaciones… Porque yo soy Nyarlathotep ¡El caos reptante!

Adaptación de la obra de H. P. Lovecraft, The dream-quest of the unknown Kadath. La novela narra las aventuras de Randolph Carter, un viajero del país de los sueños que intenta no despertar antes de alcanzar su meta, la elusiva Kadath, el hogar de los dioses. El terreno de juego es la fantasía, la imaginación más desbordada. Carter se pasea por un mundo lleno de amenazas y monstruos abominables pero también de palacios, ciudades exuberantes y geografías que recuerdan al hombre su ínfimo papel en el gigantesco tablero cósmico.

¿Cuáles son las razones para seguir en marcha cuando todo lo que nos rodea resulta terrorífico y letal? Kadath ofrece algunas respuestas a esa pregunta, en el marco de una aventura trepidante donde nunca dejan de pasar cosas mientras acompañamos a Carter desde las cumbres más elevadas a las simas más tenebrosas.

Disfruta ya con una adaptación de Lovecraft diferente a todas las que hayas leído en el pasado.

210 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

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Profile Image for Ana Cristina Lee.
767 reviews406 followers
July 27, 2022
Con dibujos muy potentes en blanco y negro, este cómic recrea las aventuras de Randolph Carter a la busca de la mítica ciudad de Kaddath.

Basada en la novela de H.P. Lovecraft The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, refleja muy bien su universo onírico, plagado de todo tipo de monstruos y terrores más allá de la imaginación.

Me ha parecido muy acertado el recurso al cómic clásico de Little Nemo como transición entre los diferentes capítulos, ya que introduce un contraste interesante con el tema principal, tanto en el fondo como en el estilo del dibujo.

3,5*
Profile Image for Quentin Wallace.
Author 34 books178 followers
November 22, 2023
This was never my favorite Lovecraft story, mainly because it felt so long and rambling. However, this comic book adaptation was much better to me. Lovecraft's prose can be so unwieldy it's hard to wade through, but this was a much clearer version of the story.

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Author 25 books15 followers
August 20, 2021
No quería dejar pasar el aniversario del nacimiento de Lovecraft sin darle prioridad a esta maravillosa novela gráfica porque me ha fascinado sobremanera, tanto como para erigirse en uno de mis "libros del año".

Avisan en el texto de contracubierta de que potencia el aspecto "aventurero" frente al horror y, desde luego, lo hace en todo su esplendor, con un apartado gráfico variado, que ora detallista, ora expresionista, ora épico (con reminiscencias a Frazetta y esas mujeres exóticas y hombres desmesurados, repletos de erotismo y volencia), ora infantil, siempre onírico. Casi se puede oler, paladear, sus especias, sus luces, sus sombras, sus amenazas... Adapta de una manera deliciosa una de las "nouvelles" icónicas del maestro de Providence, la aventura personal de su alter ego deseado y personal, Radolph Carter, por las mágicas Tierras del Sueño, un mundo que siempre he considerado muchísimo más amplio que cualquier otro ambiente de "fantasía" que se haya creado hasta el momento.

Me resulta muy complejo expresar en palabras todo lo que este tomo me ha inspirado: hay que leerlo. Todos tenemos un sueño pero la moraleja de este relato no es sólo que nunca hay que dejar de luchar por ese sueño, sino que también debemos estar dispuestos a pagar un precio por ese sueño frente a los Dioses.

No obstante (y es aquí donde los autores han sabido aprehender y transmitir con brillantez la esencia del mensaje de Lovecraft), dicho precio no es algo tan sencillo como el sacrificio de muchos elementos de nuestra apreciada vida o, incluso, de nosotros mismos... No hablamos de algo material, anímico o filosófico/metafísico. Versa sobre algo mucho más profundo, que abre la puerta al "Horror cósmico": un "pacto con el diablo" entregando nuestro alma; no a ese diablejo cristiano, o los Señores del Sueño, ni tan siquiera al Sultán Loco Azathoth que baila fenético, ciego e idiota, en el centro del Universo, o al maquiavélico Nyarlathothep, el Caos Reptante. Es a aquel que mora dentro de nosotros mismos.

Porque, parafraseando a Pickman, el Ghul, debes estar dispuesto a que no sólo tu sueño te cambie o a vivir el sueño, sino a "formar parte del sueño y vivir el sueño". Es una diferencia aparentemente inapreciable pero de enorme profundidad y relevancia porque si despiertas del sueño, lo olvidarás todo. Y el sueño sólo pertenece a alguien: a ti mismo.

Empero, esta novela gráfica, este tebeo, me ha hecho reír, emocionarme, aterrarme, llorar, desear, ilusionarme y envidiar a Radolph Carter y su aventura extraña, épica y repleta de sensibilidad y cariño por la obra de aquel hombre extraño de Nueva Inglaterra, cuyo personaje ha terminado devorando a la persona. Pero también estamos ante un tratamiento valiente, renovador y cuyas diferencias con su referente se han modernizado para dar entrada a conceptos como que el género no es algo importante, que el amor va más allá de lo físico y el aspecto, de que uno puede ser más feliz comiendo carroña que siendo un gran artista si eso es de verdad lo que su corazón desea...

En definitiva, una absoluta maravilla, para mí al menos. Creo que Diábolo ha tenido un par apostando por este libro y dándole el respaldo de una edición de lujo, en tapa dura, satinada, imponente.

Dios, lo he disfrutado a tope y lo volveré a leer muchas, muchas veces.
Profile Image for Damian Herde.
283 reviews
January 1, 2024
This adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s unpublished work, ‘The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath’ is a longer effort than ones I’ve previously seen. The story features HPL’s most frequently reoccurring character, Randolph Carter, as a master dreamer. He had created a city in dream that he loved to visit, but the minor Gods of Earth had prevented him from accessing it. His quest is to find Kadath, the city of the Gods, and petition them to return his city. However, he doesn’t know the way.

He befriends the talking cats of the dreamlands; is kidnapped and taken to the moon; travels with the ghouls in their underground caverns; and, treads upon ground forbidden to mortals.

The writer has made their own modifications to the story, via additions and omissions, and they are reasonable enough for this work. The addition of the cat that joins Carter helps as an exposition device, as well as adding some amusing banter. The gender flip of King Kuranes in order to include a brief love affair made no difference to the story. Having the ghoul Pickman join him on his journey through the caverns didn’t hurt.
In condensing the narrative there were a few jarring scene transitions that may have been confusing to people unfamiliar with the story. The art worked well for the most part, despite some sketchy moments where more detail would have been nice. The creators have clearly tried to forge their own path on the creature designs, which worked very well in some cases (this version of the moon beasts would be the best I’ve seen), stuck to the common depictions in others (like the night-gaunts, called ‘vermin’ in this book for some inexplicable reason), and gone off in their own odd direction on some (like the bhole, although no description is given within this story).

All-in-all, I enjoyed this book, and appreciated the effort put into it.
Profile Image for Rick Ray.
3,545 reviews37 followers
October 28, 2023
A rather faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", Florentino Flórez and Jacques Salomon bring to life the journey of Randolph Carter who seeks out the majestic city seen in his dreams. Much of the story is essentially a travelogue through the fictional lands crafted from Lovecraft's twisted imagination, as Randolph navigates his way to Kadath, the mountain above which the gods of dream live. The story is brimming with esoteric cat-guides, inhumane cannibalistic slavers, moon-beasts and of course, elder and outer gods like Nyarlathotep and Nodens.

As someone who generally finds the original Lovecraft story borderline unreadable, Flórez and Salomon do a pretty decent job adapting this into comic form. The overall journey is filled with the esoteric mystique found in the original novella, but it does unfortunately lack the dread and creepiness of the text. The artwork, nice as it looks, doesn't really sell the aura that locations like Dylath-Leen, Ngranek, Leng, Koth, Celephais, etc. evoke in the novella and in Lovecraft's many other works. It's an issue with many Lovecraft adaptations, especially into visual mediums like in comics, and Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath can't quite cross that hump either. One thing I did particularly really enjoy were the homages to Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" that opened each issue. Not only were they excellently composed pages, but they establish the central thread of each issue very well.
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Author 60 books85 followers
November 19, 2024
Lovecraft's works have been adapted numerous times into comics, more often than not in some way lacking or problematic. One stunning exception are Gou Tanabe's stunning adaptations.

Another one is right here.

The creators adapt arguably one of the more difficult stories, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (both lengthy and rich in wildly differing vistas), including the corresponding prose segment for comparison in each issue. And they are not found lacking in any way. This is just about the one Lovecraft story that would suffer for being adapted in black and white, and thank the Other Gods, it is rendered in beautiful, vibrant color.

No details are omitted, and the small changes made only serve to adapt a text that is normally without dialog to a form that accommodates it - in that way, it avoids becoming boring, or an illustrated novel instead of a comic. I do wonder why the night-gaunts are broadly referred to as "vermin" or "beasts of the night", instead of their actual name as in the original text, but that is an oddity more than anything else.

In any event, this is an excellent adaptation, and I would love to see more from the same creative team.
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11 reviews
September 25, 2024
un gran libro, trata sobre el viaje de un sujeto que viaja entre sueños a diferentes tierras en el mundo de los sueños, encontrando cada tipo de criaturas de la mente de este autor, como dioses extraños, entes, gatos parlantes, y criaturas criptidas, mientras busca una ciudad prohibida donde habitan las deidades; en lo personal es un gran libro de ciencia ficción y aventuras con toques inquietantes, le doy cuatro estrellas ya que por ser Lovecraft esperaba algo aterrador y esto aunque está en el universo donde ocurren todas las historias de Lovecraft lo clasificó mas cómo ciencia ficción y aventura aún así no deja de ser genial.


a great book, it is about the journey of a subject who travels between dreams to different lands in the world of dreams, encountering each type of creatures from the mind of this author, while searching for a forbidden city, personally it is a great book of science fiction and adventure with disturbing touches
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574 reviews4 followers
May 23, 2025
I have a love/hate relationship with Lovecraft. This comic, again, blurs those lines. This story is a dream, so therefore it is already going to b hard to follow much less understand. I think the Sandman series did the Dreamworld story better, but I liked Unknown Kadath. The artwork was decent in putting images to some Lovecraft creatures and I liked the references to other characters in Lovecraft's other works. Overall I thought the story of Unknown Kadath was just ok. There are a LOT of things I hated or saw other tropes presented better in other stories. Some ppl are really gonna hate this title.
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1,257 reviews30 followers
January 22, 2024
I have read the text a few times and my usual critique is that someone once said the least interesting thing in the world is other people talking about their dreams. This adaptation mostly strips away that framing Device and leaves us in the dream quest. The breaks are Windsor McKay homages that aren't so much plot breaks as tonal breaks that bring some levity to the thing. Artwork is exquisite. It is hard to do Lovecraft better than this.
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Author 2 books1 follower
February 2, 2022
La ignota Kadath, la ciudad de los dioses... Una de las aventuras de Randolph Carter, el aventurero interdimensional de Lovecraft. Aunque he de reconocer que los dibujos y algunas elecciones de diálogos de esta adaptación libre del relato, no siempre me han parecido los mejores, la idea de incluir al final de los capítulos viñetas del estilo de Little Nemo me funciona muy bien.
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10.3k reviews1,061 followers
November 19, 2023
Basically a travelogue through a imaginary land in search of Kadath, a city no one's ever seen. Through the lens of Lovecraft, it's a darker world than one might expect. Still, it's just OK. The adaptation doesn't invoke the dread that Lovecraft can, so it just feels like a darker pulp story. The extras do include Lovecraft's original novella and the many covers.
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2,441 reviews16 followers
November 10, 2024
Like all of Lovecraft it was surrealistic and dark. This adaptation has the same problems all attempts to adapt Lovecraft into a visual medium, it is hard to make the creatures as horrible as the ones that Lovecraft nudged the readers into creating in their own minds. It wasn't bad. It was okay. I am not trying damn it with faint praises, it's just that it didn't blow me away.
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112 reviews14 followers
April 5, 2025
If this book was a Bechdel test, it would score minus 100. Also omg the unrelatable-ness of a blonde white man named Carter basically being owed the world just because (he is a blonde white man named Carter) *yawn*

Interesting fantasy setting and very good illustrations (cats!) but otherwise, ultra-meh.
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123 reviews2 followers
December 10, 2025
cool art, but I felt like the way the story was presented could've been better. even as someone who has read the original story, this was slightly hard to follow with the way the dialogue was and how everything was formatted. otherwise, still a pretty good comic book adaptation of what I consider to be one of Lovecraft's best novellas, but alas, we can't all be Gou Tanabe
Profile Image for Sonic.
2,379 reviews67 followers
May 7, 2024
Absolutely love love loved the artwork!
Made Lovecraft much more readable in some ways,
.... but was also slow and plodding at times
(like Lovecraft can be,

[C'thulu forgive me!])

Would happily read more adaptations!
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Author 30 books169 followers
December 6, 2024
A very pulpy take on The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, with annoying timejumps between the issues that are often backtracked ad nauseum. The artwork is gorgeous, but too often the story descends into a lexicon of well-known Lovecraftian names. It's a neat story, but this is not its best adaptation.
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1,187 reviews5 followers
July 18, 2024
A ratos irregular, pero hecho con cariño con la obra de HPL
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520 reviews9 followers
October 4, 2023
A Graphic Novel adaptation of a Lovecraft story. The plot is all over the place and it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on. On, the plus side our protagonist does not faint which is a Lovecraft troupe. Not up to the author’s usual standards I would not recommend it.
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767 reviews98 followers
December 9, 2024
"Still with me, cat? Come on, say something!"

Відразу вражає деталізація та гра із різними графічними стилями, чого не було в Кулбарда.
Дитя Рендольф Картер бачить сон в якому психопомпом стає маленьке чорне кошеня. В наступних розділах воно приєднається до мандрівки Картера до гори Нґранек, що є відступом від канону, але продовжує мотив інтродукції малого з котом на початку кожного розділу.
Бамц! І в наступній сторінці він вже в печері зуґів!
За келишком місячного вина старійшина зуґ рече:
"The Gods are fickle. They appear where they like. They are likelier to bee seen on high mountain peaks than in valleys. "

Мандрівка легендарного сновиди починається тут. Zoogz realize that all which is forgotten need not necessarily be dead. Наступна зупинка - Ултар.
Атал - найстарший жрець Ултара, який має більше 300 років виявляється напівмуміфікованим буркутуном біля трону якого стоїть пишногруда охоронниця із золотим бердишем.

"The dream has changed me! And I like what I`ve become. Until you accept that, you'll be a stranger here! Go find your city. Follow your dream. But remember, you must be willing to let the dream transform you." - ключові слова Пікмана, яка ще більше утверджують його зв'язок із Картером і розкривають персонажа навіть краще, як це зробив Лавкрафт!

Далі - Селефаїс і його чудасії.
Якщо порівняти з варіантом Кулбарда, то цар Куранес Флореса це такий собі метросексуальний Ієшуа в халаті з трояндами, оточений гаремом хтиво-прекрасних розкішниць.

Куранес:
"Listen Randolph Carter. You, like me, will end up sighing to relive scenes of your early childhood. You will remember the glow of Beacon Hill at evening, the hoary gambler roofs of ancient and witch-haunted Archam and walleys where stone walls rambled. Stay here Randolph Carter, and dream by my side! "

Інновація цієї графічної версії в еротизмі! Метаморфоза Куранеса в жінку! 'We need great golden copulations' - сказав би Моррісон, який дійсно схожий на андрогінного Куранеса. Вочевидячки, що Лавкрафт від побаченого почервонів би, посинів, посивів і прокляв сценариста разом із художниками. Цікаво, що і чорний кіт теж собі знаходить в гаремі двох білих персидок.
Але читач ніколи не зрозуміє якої статі Куранес був у своєму земному житті. Все ж натяки говорять, що він був жінкою.

Колекція словес:
oarsmen - веслярі.
fickle - мінливий
precipices - урвища
repugnant - огидний
muck - гній
circumvent - обійти, обманути
carrion - падло
offal - відходи
scoff - глумитися
incorrigible - невиправний

У висновку маємо надзвичайно соковиту, помпезну та яскраву історію. Порівнювати з Кулбардом важко, але все ж команда з трьох талановитих творців в дечому перевершує роботу одного самородка. Ще одна перевага цього комікса в тому, що вкінці кожного випуску приводиться оригінальний текст Лавкрафта. Але я б радив спершу прочитати повість повністю і аж потім братися до графічних адаптацій.
Таке геніальне першоджерело важко зіпсувати, тому маємо два чудові доповнення, які гаряче рекомендую всім шанувальникам Лавкрафта і просто хоршого фентезі.
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173 reviews
July 27, 2025
namorei do gatinho meu bem que cousinha tan riquinha
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