The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

2016 • 192 pages

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Average rating3.7

15



I went into this expecting a cosmic horror story, since I saw this advertised as a Lovecraftian story, but what I got instead was a gorgeous quest story that's really a hell of a lot more like fantasy than anything else. This reimagines the horrorscape of Lovecraft's imagination as...well, something not entirely unlike our own world, actually. Apart from the Elder Gods, mind-bendy physics, and the things that live underground. As I said, it's not what I expected, but I absolutely adore it all the same - especially since Johnson does a fairly good job of calling out Lovecraft's racism and misogyny.

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