If Randolph Carter’s dogged pursuit of his sunset‑city—through Ulthar’s cats, ghoul tunnels with Pickman, and even parley with Nyarlathotep—hooked you, you’ll love Alveric’s obsessive search for Lirazel across the shifting borders of Elfland in The King of Elfland’s Daughter. Dunsany’s lyrical vistas and encounters with timeless powers echo Carter’s dream-logic journey toward Kadath, turning longing itself into an adventure.

If the way Carter roamed from Celephaïs to Leng, sailed black galleys, and crossed lunar wastes thrilled you, The Worm Ouroboros scales that wanderlust to titanic heights. Lords of Demonland and Witchland voyage over towering passes and alien seas, duel on remote plateaus like Carter among the moon-beasts, and pursue glory with the same mythic, dream-saturated grandeur.

If you savored the Dreamlands’ dense lore—Ulthar’s sacred cats, the forbidding slopes of Ngranek, the markets of Dylath-Leen—Vance’s The Dying Earth offers a tour of equally vivid places. You’ll drift with Liane and T’sais past ancient cities, forbidden grimoires, and capricious magicians, each stop as textured and eerie as Carter’s sojourns on the way to Kadath.

If the night-gaunts’ silent flights, the moon-beasts’ opal bazaars, and Carter’s slippery, half-remembered geographies entranced you, In Viriconium steepes you in equally uncanny dislocations. Harrison’s city molts like a dream; meanings shift beneath your feet much as Carter’s path to Kadath kept changing under the gaze of the Crawling Chaos.

If stepping from waking Boston into the Dreamlands—to bargain with ghouls, ride with Ulthar’s cats, and seek a city the gods forbade—was your delight, The Neverending Story invites a similar passage. Bastian crosses into Fantastica and, like Carter, finds that will and wish shape the journey, while the stakes mount toward a confrontation with the very heart of a dreamed world.