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The Randolph Carter tales / H.P. Lovecraft.

ISBN: 183857560X
ISBN: 9781838575601
ISBN: 9781784288327
ISBN: 1784288322
Physical Description: 192 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: London : Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2020.

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (author). Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Container of (work): Dream-quest of unknown Kadath. (Added Author). Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Container of (work): Statement of Randolph Carter. (Added Author). Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Container of (work): Silver key. (Added Author). Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Container of (work): Through the gates of the silver key. (Added Author). Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Container of (work): Unnamable. (Added Author).

Summary:

Carter is a quiet and melancholy dreamer with a sensitive disposition, prone to fainting during times of emotional stress. But he can also be courageous, with enough strength of mind and character to face and foil the horrific creatures of the Dreamlands. Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age of nine, he underwent a mysterious experience at his great-uncle Christopher's farm and thereafter exhibited a gift of prophecy. He is the descendant of Sir Randolph Carter, who had studied magic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Sir Randolph had then emigrated to America and his son Edmund Carter later had to flee the Salem witch-trials. Carter also had an ancestor involved in one of the Crusades, who was captured by the Muslims and learned ""wild secrets"" from them. This volume contains all of H P Lovecraft's stories about Randolph Carter.