The Dream-Quest has evoked a broad range of reactions, "some HPL enthusiasts finding it almost unreadable and others... comparing it to the Alice books and the fantasies of George MacDonald."Joshi and Schultz, p. 74. Joanna Russ referred to The Dream-Quest as "charming... but alas, never rewritten or polished".Joanna Russ, "Lovecraft, H(oward) P(hilips), in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith. St. James Press, 1986, (pp. 461–3).
