The five stories in The Dream Quest of Randolph Carter take Carter backwards and forwards through time, across outer space, and across a number of dimensions.
Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the fictional Miskatonic University. 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.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) – Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it.
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1920) – I repeat to you gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless.
The Unnamable (1925) – We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in Arkham, and speculating about the unnamable.
The Silver Key (1929) – Strange fancies had Randolph Carter, and the silver key in an old attic was the clue that led him into forbidden paths
Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1934) – A colossal story of cosmic scope – a novella of eight chapters.
