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Dear lord, if I have to endure another of Randolph Carter's dreamland pilgrimages, I'll declare myself done and dusted where Lovecraft is concerned. The long and winding descriptions (typical of authors of that time) coupled with a peppering of "alien sounding" names (the cliché way of making something feel out of this world) just has me in automatic read without reading mode: I scan the words but register none