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At the Mountains of Madness
| Author: | H. P. Lovecraft |
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Modern Library, 2005 Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936 |
| Series: | Cthulhu Mythos |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos Monsters Psychological |
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Synopsis
One of Lovecraft's longest works, this novella was turned into a graphic novel by British artist I. N. J. Culbard in 2010 (more on his work later). At the Mountains of Madness owes much of its creeping melancholy to not only Lovecraft's fascination with polar exploration, but also to the legacy of polar exploration in fiction, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Told in the first-person by Miskatonic geologist Dr. William Dyer, At the Mountains of Madness details a scientific expedition to Antarctica that unearths the ancient and ruined city of the Elder Things of the Necronomicon.
This Novel was originally serialized in 1936 February, March and April issues of Astounding Stories. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology Foundations of Fear: An Exploration of Horror, edited by David G. Hartwell, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror and The The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories.
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft is available free on the Internet.
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