Heartwarming / The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

• Randolph Carter's interactions with the cats are filled with HPL's love and admiration for them.
• At the end, Nyarlathotep out of all people delivers one, telling Carter that the beautiful city of his dreams that even the Gods of Kadath abandoned the Dreamlands for was nothing more than his home city of Boston and his memories of New England, in what may be one of the most beautiful passages in Lovecraft's works. Sadly, this is all a ruse, since Nyarly is, as always, a Manipulative Bastard.
  "For know you, that your gold and marble city of wonder is only the sum of what you have seen and loved in youth. It is the glory of Boston's hillside roofs and western windows aflame with sunset; of the flower-fragrant Common and the great dome on the hill and the tangle of gables and chimneys in the violet valley where the many-bridged Charles flows drowsily. These things you saw, Randolph Carter, when your nurse first wheeled you out in the springtime, and they will be the last things you will ever see with eyes of memory and of love."
• The ending itself, where Randolph Carter not only outsmarts the nefarious Nyarlathotep (thanks to the help of Nodens and the intelligent violet gas S’ngac), he safely returns to his room in Boston with a black kitten on his side, complete with Scenery Porn. This is one of the few endings that is NOT a Downer Ending or a Bittersweet Ending; just a wonderful and comforting ending where the protagonist survives with his sanity perfectly in shape. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome too.

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