Carter, Randolph W.

Carter, Randolph W.
   (b. 1873)
   HPL introduced the recurring character Randolph Carter inThe Statement of Randolph Carter,” in which Carter is modeled after HPL from an actual dream. InThe Unnamable,” Carter, who narrates the story, is briefly identified (by last name only) as a writer of weird fiction, like HPL. The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadathis a picaresque narrative of Carters adventures in his search for the sunset city of his dreams. InThe Silver Key” (written before Dream-Quest), Carter, a disillusioned man past middle age, is not so much a character as a fictional exponent of HPLs philosophical outlook. As an elderly man, Carter finds he haslost the key to the gate of dreams.” In a dream, his deceased grandfather (unnamed) tells him of an ancestralsilver key,” which Carter finds in the attic upon waking. Having found the key, Carter then disappears. InThrough the Gates of the Silver Key,” Carter is presumed dead, and others step in to settle his estate. The Swami Chandraputra tells of what happened to Carter following his disappearance. The Swami is revealed to be Carter himself, but residing in the body of Zkauba the Wizard from the planet Yaddith.
   The W. in Carters name appears only in thestationerythat HPL and R.H. Barlow designed for HPL in June 1935. Although HPL clearly identified with Carter on many different levels, Carter is not as autobiographical a character as many others in HPLs fiction; he is, instead, a construct representing various of HPLs philosophical and aesthetic views.

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