Those fans of John Carpenter's The Thing will recognize the motifs Lovecraft uses in his description of an antarctic expedition that discovers the remnants of something they never expected. The entire story is delivered as a first person narrative almost entirely devoid of dialogue from the perspect...
'At the Mountains of Madness' starts out much like any other Lovecraft, with too many protestations of truth-speaking and uttering the unutterable, but what sets it apart from other Lovecraft tales is its incredible scope. Millennia of history are decoded from stone walls and to an extent the reader...
“On the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins”.Yep! We are in Lovecraft’s universe where even penguins are grotesque. I mean, whoever heard of an ugly penguin? At the Mountains of Madness is H.P. Lovecraft’s best k...
Fascinating! Lovecraft combines exploring with history and science which is altogether enveloped in the mist of horror... What was before us and how we came to be and what the future holds for us are some of the questions dealt with in this masterpiece. Subtle streak of fear that crawls under your s...
I can't write a good review now as I will admit to skimming through this a little, through no fault of its own. In fact I really enjoyed it, but being stricken with flu makes my attention span almost non-existent. So the review will wait, until I can come up with one deserving of the story.
An interesting travelogue but it is not horror. We only know it is meant to be terrifying because the narrator tells us so. Multiple times. I found the writing to be at times too... much. As if, if it hadn't been Lovecraft, an editor would have stricken many passages as being self indulgent. And to ...
Ok, so the introduction said that Lovecraft was influenced by [a:Edgar Allan Poe|4624490|Edgar Allan Poe|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1315307900p2/4624490.jpg]. I love Poe,and Poe liked to do wordy writing, which was typical of the period in which he was active. At the Mountains of Madness was f...
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