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At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft
Ancient Astronaut Mythology
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.
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The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September of 1930 and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent.
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The novella's title is derived from a line in "The Hashish Man," a short story by fantasy writer Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany: "And we came at last to those ivory hills that are named the Mountains of Madness..."
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The story has inadvertently popularized the concept of ancient astronauts, as well as Antarctica's place in the "ancient astronaut mythologyâ
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
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About: On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
About: On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
About: On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
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About: At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by H.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
About: At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
About: At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
About: âIt is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
This edition also contains At the Mountains of Madness
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