FWIW, I think your Dream Quest material should have wonder but also a strong touch of cosmic horror, since I'm noticing that, as you have put it (iirc), these stories are half-way points between his Dunsany phase of wonder and the later phase of nihilistic horror. The wonder should be there but should lead to the horror. Then again, being a hopeful dreamer, seeing vistas of wondrous beauty, and then being quashed by nihilism is pretty stinking downbeat and negative. Seems even worse than being a clerk or historian and stumbling on the Mythos, as in CoC. But what do I know? Forgive the rambling...
FWIW, I think your Dream Quest material should have wonder but also a strong touch of cosmic horror, since I'm noticing that, as you have put it (iirc), these stories are half-way points between his Dunsany phase of wonder and the later phase of nihilistic horror. The wonder should be there but should lead to the horror. Then again, being a hopeful dreamer, seeing vistas of wondrous beauty, and then being quashed by nihilism is pretty stinking downbeat and negative. Seems even worse than being a clerk or historian and stumbling on the Mythos, as in CoC. But what do I know? Forgive the rambling...
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