At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

May 2017 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

This classic mind-shattering tale, which “ranks high among the horror stories of the English language,” plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time).

In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic University encounters a gory sight when they discover their advance team’s camp has been destroyed and its members slaughtered. There is no evidence of what happened except a series of burial mounds, six of which contain dead specimens of unknown species. Eight similar tombs are empty, but they haven’t been broken into—they’ve been broken out of.
 
What began as a search for knowledge soon becomes a terrifying confrontation with the true nature of the world and the universe in all its stark blackness and unyielding oblivion. For mankind is not—and never has been—the bright light of creation. It’s all a mistake, an insignificant stain of existence, forgotten by an unwitting and indifferent creator . . . until now.
 
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Ratings and reviews

Fantasitic story that gives an instense break down of the events that unfolded during a archeological expedition. What transpires is so horrifying it leaves out characters in dismay and in the presence of something incomprehensible. Lovecraft was focused on these sorts of stories that were not about "scares" for the sake of or something that threatened you and tapped into your basic instincts. But things that left you in a state of complete madness, so incomprehensible to the mind one can only imagine imagine what is in the depths of mystery. Tapping into the very fact that man has only scratched the surface of the cosmos.

Although I'm a fan of Lovecraft's monsters, this book was probably one of his drier ones.

Beyond the plot, Lovecraft's language changes the way you experience the world. It is beautiful art.

About the author

Howard Phillip Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in New England, a landscape that he turned into a stage of fiction. His stories inherited the tradition of gothic horror tales from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, but Lovecraft set his own standards. His first stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine. “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), a short story about a monstrous deity that inhabits the Earth, is the base of the myths related to the Cthulhu Mythos, a genre of horror fiction launched by Lovecraft. In its world, populated by beings of other dimensions, the laws of humanity are worthless. But man is incapable of understanding its insignificance in the face of the magnitude of the cosmos.