A review by alyssaplacey
At the Mountains of Madness by I.N.J. Culbard, H.P. Lovecraft
4.0
*read in 2022*
"For a second we gasped in admiration..."
September 1930. A scientific expedition embarks for the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. But the secrets they unearth there reveal a past almost beyond human comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. By taking scientific fact so seriously, At the Mountains of Madness(1936), H.P Lovecraft's classic take on the "heroic age" of polar exploration, helped to define a new era in 20th-century science fiction.
"...and then vague horror began to creep into our souls."
"For a second we gasped in admiration..."
September 1930. A scientific expedition embarks for the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. But the secrets they unearth there reveal a past almost beyond human comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. By taking scientific fact so seriously, At the Mountains of Madness(1936), H.P Lovecraft's classic take on the "heroic age" of polar exploration, helped to define a new era in 20th-century science fiction.
"...and then vague horror began to creep into our souls."