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At the Mountains of Madness
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Publisher Description
Professor William Dyer of the the Miskatonic University knew that the antarctic was a forlorn, dangerous place, but nothing could have prepared him and his expediting for what they would find in the Mountains of Madness. They discover an abandoned city from ancient times. But is it really abandoned? And will any of them be able to get out alive? A sublime horror novel by one of the greatest horror writers of all time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness opens with a newspaper announcement of a voyage to Antarctica, immediately followed by the narrator, Professor William Dyer stating his opposition to it. From there, the book launches into the story of Dyer's own, earlier expedition to the Antarctic wasteland, one that culminated in murder and horror in the aforementioned mountains. Lovecraft was a master of writing about indescribable horrors whose visages violate the laws of nature in unsettling ways. Right off the bat, this creates a problem for anyone seeking to translate his work into a visual medium: how to keep the sense of unspoken tension and dread? Artist I.N.J. Culbard addressed this concern admirably by telling the story largely through radio broadcasts, which forces the reader to feel the tense isolation felt by the explorers as they uncover progressively horrific mysteries from the Antarctic ice. Culbard also effectively threads a sense of dread throughout the book with subtle touches of the macabre, such as a glimpse of two blind penguins swimming in the foreground of an early frame. This is one of Lovecraft's most famous stories. Although it is questionable whether it needed an adaptation, this is an excellent one.
Customer Reviews
Fantastically Gripping
This was my first plunge into the world and works of H. P. Lovecraft, and it most certainly won't be the last. Though it may start a tad slow and the dated prose did take a little readjusting to, everything works in congress to make the reader forget, even briefly, that what they are reading is fiction. The tedium of credentials and ship manifests and preparatory work for the expedition all serve to build the credibility of the narrator, as he weaves in hints of horrors and warnings of unbelievable occurrences that he begrudgingly must tell. I won't go on further about the story but Lovecraft grips you with page turning mystery and keeps you attention with grotesquely intriguing revaluations sprinkled here and there. The suspense is well built and the payoff gratifying. A very easy book to recommend. Deceptively short but dense. Best read I've had in a long time.