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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

H.P. Lovecraft

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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Title	:	At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
Author	:	H.P. Lovecraft
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	September 13th 1991 by Del Rey Books (first published January 1st 1931)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Short Stories. Classics. Science Fiction

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A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.

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At the Mountains of Madness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novel by H. P. Lovecraft
The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Shunned House • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Statement of Randolph Carter • [Randolph Carter] • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

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Original Title:	At the Mountains of Madness
ISBN:	0345329457 (ISBN13: 9780345329455)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Dexter Ward, William Dyer
Setting:	Antarctica

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Provokes vertiginous terror, as it describes in details the discovery of an alien civilization in the middle of antarctic coldness. It continues a tradition of antarctic novels, from Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nanducket", till Jules Verne's "The sphinx of the Ice Fields". Even today feeds the conversation about the Hollow Earth Theory. I tried to imagine how abysmal the specific alien civilization would be, if existed. The uncanny feeling provoked by all those strange

I just don't know what to say about Lovecraft. It's all good spooky fun, but... he really isn't a good writer. He's very repetitive, and tends to fall back on the trick of "this is the memoir of stuffy and stilted layman, so that's why it's badly written." Also there's way too much "ZOMG! It was so terrifying to behold that words cannot describe it!" "It was like that indescribable utterly terrifying thing that you are utterly terrified of but can't describe because it's so utterly terrifying!"

This book contains the novelette "At the Mountains of Madness", a lonely, creepy work where the Shoggoths dwell. The accompanying short stories are worthwhile as well.I like Lovecraft's work, but "At the Mountains of Madness" was sometimes too heavy on the description of the surroundings in too much of a mathematical sense. A sketch or two would suffice occasionally.Having said that, Lovecraft is about the slow horror and the reader's imagination, so it doesn't always lend itself to light

I respect the history and trajectory of this author, but my feelings do not consume my mind when I read his works.

I love Lovecraft despite his thinly veiled xenophobia and his political sympathies with fascism. I guess just don't take you politics or world view from horror writers!

Erk! I can't love the writing style and aliens are....er, an alien concept to my reading preferences :P Read for the geocaching challenge - tis not easy to find a book set in Antarctica (and obtain it) so this novella (with the other tales) was the best I could do.