| At the Mountains of Madness Contributor(s): Lovecraft, H. P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 149749768X ISBN-13: 9781497497689 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback Published: March 2014 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: Horror of H. P. Lovecraft |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Age Level: 13-17 |
| Grade Level: 8-12 |
| Series: Horror of H. P. Lovecraft |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 7.01" W x 10" L (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 152909 Reading Level: 3.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the Mountains of Madness - By H. P. Lovecraft - A Terrifying Horror Story. At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections. The story has inadvertently popularized the concept of ancient astronauts, as well as Antarctica's place in the "ancient astronaut mythology." The story is told 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, 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. A smaller advance group, led by Professor Lake, discovered and crossed the mountains and found the remains of fourteen 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. When the main expedition loses contact with Lake's party, Dyer and the rest of his colleagues travel to their last known location to investigate. Lake's camp is devastated, and both the men and the dogs slaughtered, while a man named Gedney and another dog are unaccounted for. Near the camp they find six star-shaped snow mounds, and one specimen buried under each. They discover that the better preserved life forms have vanished, and that some form of dissection experiment has been done on an unnamed man and a dog. Dyer elects to close off the area from which they took their samples. |
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