What of the unfinished short story "Azathoth"?

TheDreamer · Post by **TheDreamer** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:08 pm

I have really wanted to know exactly who the protagonist in this story is?

Can anyone in this entire forum shed any light on the subject? Because I find this to be his last work. It could have been brilliant but I wish I could read more.

Thankyou all for any help, it is appreciated.

TheDreamer

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:18 pm

It wasn't his last work, I don't think - didn't he abandon it to write "Dream Quest" instead?

TheDreamer · Post by **TheDreamer** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:43 pm

Ah, yes, the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. I didn't that he abandoned it, but thanks. But still, I wonder what he was trying to write..

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:35 pm

All I knows is that its a page and a half long and sucks ass...unlike Dream Quest...which has several pages

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:39 pm

see this thread also

Ulayoth · Post by **Ulayoth** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:41 am

I find that HPL gets more across in 2 pages than most novelists do in 500.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:02 pm

yah two solid pages of shit...except for What the Moon Brings, thats an awesome story!

Danial · Post by **Danial** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:24 pm

The Book was unfinished and I thought it was good. Was wishing there was more atleast. I read somewhere that it was an attempt at expanding upon Fungi From Yuggoth.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:59 pm

Yah The Book is a pretty neat story.

miz redavni · Post by **miz redavni** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:40 pm

Eternities End wrote:yah two solid pages of shit...except for What the Moon Brings, thats an awesome story!

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

this is such a brilliant quote! i cant believe you think that his work is shit..... meh... we all have our own oppinions.... yes i know.... my spelling sucks

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:52 am

I've read that quote too many times cuz to me its not as effective as it once was, and his work with the Dreamworld stuff is shit, The Dream Quest had the stupidest ending ever and the rest are no better.

wilum pugmire · Post by **wilum pugmire** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:16 pm

"Azathoth" is the opening fragment of what was planned as a novel. Penned in 1922, it is an early work. The 400 words of it that we have are quite superb, like some dreamy decadent opium-dream. The style is very much in the prose-poetry tradition. Whenever I read this excellent fragment, I wish that HPL had completed more of it. As to your question concerning its narrator, this is another example of Lovecraft's un-named narrators, as we find in other tales such as "The Shadow over Innsmouth." Some theories tell that this fragment eventually became the discarded short novel, "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" -- but there is little to support this conjecture. Is "Azathoth" available in any of the paperback editions of HPL? I have it in Arkham's MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, but cannot now recall if it was included in any of ye Del Rey trade pbs.

Issac Pilgrim · Post by **Issac Pilgrim** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:07 am

There was no hand to hold me back
That night I found ye Antient Track.

That's very good: yours or a quote; if so, from what.

wilum pugmire · Post by **wilum pugmire** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:39 am

My signature is from H. P. Lovecraft's poem, "The Ancient Track." The poem gave it's title to the Joshi-edited THE ANCIENT TRACK -- THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF H. P. LOVECRAFT, still available from Night Shade Books.

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:27 pm

i like it