At the Mountains of Madness
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- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 82Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 1.5 hours4 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 6 of 10
A little about the story
A scientific expedition from Miskatonic University travels to Antarctica to drill for fossils. Instead it finds the frozen remains of strange creatures far older than humanity, and then a vast, abandoned city beyond a range of impossibly high mountains.
The geologist who survived tells the story to warn others never to go back. H. P. Lovecraft builds the horror slowly, through scientific detail and growing dread, until the true history of the Earth is revealed. It’s the classic of cosmic horror.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- cosmic horror
- Antarctic expeditions
- slow-building dread
Maybe not if you want fast action. The horror creeps.
Things You May Not Know About At the Mountains of Madness
- Rejected at first. Weird Tales turned it down, and it finally appeared in Astounding Stories in 1936.
- Inspired by real explorers. Lovecraft was fascinated by Antarctic exploration, including Byrd’s expeditions.
- The Elder Things. The barrel-shaped Elder Things became key figures in the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Tekeli-li! The creatures’ cry borrows from Poe’s novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
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