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Original Title:	At the Mountains of Madness
ISBN:	0812974417 (ISBN13: 9780812974416)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Antarctica

At the Mountains of Madness Paperback | Pages: 138 pages

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Title	:	At the Mountains of Madness
Author	:	H.P. Lovecraft
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	definitive
Pages	:	Pages: 138 pages
Published	:	June 14th 2005 by Modern Library (first published February 1936)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Audiobook. Lovecraftian

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Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.

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Geologist William Dyer led an expedition to Antarctica which resulted in a tragic end to some members of the group. He's recounting their experiences in the hope of convincing other explorers to stay away from the dangerous area.Although this is a classic, I was underwhelmed by the short novel. Lovecraft spends most of the book with his world building, pages and pages of dry descriptions of strange life-forms and an ancient civilization. Archeologists would have taken years to interpret the

The first image that usually comes to my mind when someone mentions Antarctica is how beautiful it looks. White, Cold ice giants with funny penguins dancing around like happy feet!That was before I read this book.If you ask me now about South pole, I would probably answer you in a toneless voice and a daunting thousand-yard stare...." It is a white, aeon-dead world which has shunned most of the living organisms, a nightmarish gateway to accursed ultimate abyss where stark unforgiving winds

This is as close as one will get to an epic adventure quest by H.P. Lovecraft. If you're an old role-playing game geek like me, this will appeal to the dungeoneer in you. Plenty of delving and mystery in this one!If you're a fan of the movie Prometheus, you'd do well to hark back to the origin of many of the movie's tropes. They are similar, at least on the surface: An impossibly old alien race creates life on earth for the purpose of enslaving it, yadda, yadda. If you hated the movie

This is the second book in a row I've read that uses the phrase "risky business". Definitely not a coincidence.

6.0 stars. As I was experiencing Lovecrafts supremely awesome, nightmarish masterpiece, At the Mountains of Madness (ATMOM), it really struck me for the first time that he was a tremendously literate writer. I have been a fan of Lovecraft for a long time and have always been gaga for his bizarre imaginative stories. However, what jumped out at me on this reading of ATMOM was how impressively Lovecraft enhances the sense of dread that hangs over his stories through the colorful, melodramatic

Imagine: Your friend goes to Antarctica with a team of scientists and discovers the remains of a before-the-dawn-of-time alien civilization AND then finds the ripped up bodies of some team members lying around AND then was chased by the lost alien forms. Cool. Except, your "friend" doesn't want to tell you about any of that. All he wants to do is describe the icy, mountainous, eerie, tunneled landscape that Roerich built: So you're like, no, go back to the part about the ripped up bodies.And

I really wanted to love this book. I mean, it's Lovecraft - as a nerd and a fan of horror literature, I am practically required to love him. But instead, I was mostly just bored. Okay, scientific expedition runs into terrifying creatures in the Antarctic. I am totally behind this idea! But then, the entire middle portion of the book was just this self-indulgent description of his made-up alien race's entire existence on Earth, and it didn't even read well. It just sounded like his notes, maybe