At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
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At the Mountains of Madness

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrator: William Roberts

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

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. Lovecraft’s most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as Lovecraft’s deep fascination with the Antarctic. The sinister discoveries made by a group of explorers in At the Mountains of Madness are testament to the author’s enormous powers of imagination.

Reviews

Imagine: Your friend goes to Antarctica with a team of scientists and discovers the remains of a before-the-dawn-of-time alien civilization AND then finds the ripped up bodies of some team members lying around AND then was chased by the lost alien forms. Cool. Except, your "friend" doesn't want to t......more

Cosmic horror at it´s best, silently researching, cave climbing, more and more frightened protagonists stumbling in the face of the old, immortal evil lurking out there, somewhere, always hungry, watching, never sleeping. Madness and genius go hand in hand and it would be unfriendly to say that it´s......more

I used to defend Lovecraft's reputation, arguing that he'd suffered the same fate as fellow pulp author Howard: that later writers, hoping to profit off of his name, put it on the cover of all sorts of middling short story collections--cliche and badly-written stuff that (if the reader is lucky) mig......more