Rent At the Mountains of Madness

Synopsis

"At The Mountains Of Madness" is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The story is written in first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor at Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains higher than the Himalayas. The group that discovered and crossed the mountains found the remains of 14 ancient life forms; completely unknown to science and unidentifiable as either plants or animals. Six of the specimens are badly damaged and the others uncannily pristine. Their highly-evolved features are problematic: their stratum location puts them at a point on the geologic time scale much too early for such features to have naturally evolved yet... In 1999, the Modern Library included "At The Mountains Of Madness" in its readers' list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century. Einstein Books' edition of "At The Mountains Of Madness" contains supplementary texts: • "The Nameless City", by H. P. Lovecraft, which also deals with the exploration of an ancient underground city apparently abandoned by its nonhuman builders, and is a clear precedent for "At the Mountains of Madness." • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, by Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's most obvious literary source for "At the Mountains of Madness" is Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", whose concluding section is set in Antarctica. • A Few Quotes Of H. P. Lovecraft.

View descriptions at Amazon.com