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**NEW HIGHER RES COVER** 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.

This Halcyon Classics ebook is H. P. Lovecraft's lost world horror thriller AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unkown life-forms. Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and misunderstandings, the group learns of Earth's secret history and legacy.Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft's work had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.

At the Mountains of Madness first appeared in 1936, in the February, March and April editions of the American magazine Astounding Stories. One of H.P. Lovecrafts most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poes Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as Lovecrafts deep fascination with the Antarctic. The sinister discoveries made by a group of explorers in At the Mountains of Madness are testament to the authors enormous powers of imagination.

The chilling tale of an Antarctic expedition gone terribly wrong from master horror writer H. P. LovecraftAt the Mountains of Madness is a brilliantly told horror novel. Best of all, it's a "perfect" Lovecraft story, combining everything that makes Lovecraft…well, "Lovecraftian": constant impending dread, mysteries beyond time and space, characters driven to the brink of—and then beyond—insanity, and science knocking at the doors of the nightmarish unknown.

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death.Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.

At the Mountains of Madness "I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain." "At the Mountains of Madness" has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.

A large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group led by Professor Lake, encountered ancient alien life forms dubbed The Elder Things. Told from Dyers perspective, this story goes into detail of Dyer's fatal encounters with the aliens in Antarctica and how this new expedition will surely end in nothing but more tragedy.

The chilling tale of an Antarctic expedition gone terribly wrong from master horror writer H. P. LovecraftAt the Mountains of Madness is a brilliantly told horror novel. Best of all, it's a "perfect" Lovecraft story, combining everything that makes Lovecraft…well, "Lovecraftian": constant impending dread, mysteries beyond time and space, characters driven to the brink of—and then beyond—insanity, and science knocking at the doors of the nightmarish unknown.