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At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness
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In H.P. Lovecraft’s haunting and tale of science fiction and horror, an Antarctic geological expedition stumbles upon clues to an ancient alien civilization, and the origin of life on earth, but also awakens an ancient evil, of blasphemous darkness, which threatens their very survival. Widely... show more
In H.P. Lovecraft’s haunting and tale of science fiction and horror, an Antarctic geological expedition stumbles upon clues to an ancient alien civilization, and the origin of life on earth, but also awakens an ancient evil, of blasphemous darkness, which threatens their very survival. Widely acknowledged as one of the most astonishing and significant works modern horror fiction, influencing many films, ranging from Howard Hawks’s The Thing from Another World to Ridley Scott’s Alien and Prometheus, Lovecraft’s tale is an evocative and terrifying story, full of rich, atmospheric description and a brooding sense of darkness and intangible evil.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780692356296 (0692356290)
ASIN: 0692356290
Publisher: Hythloday Press
Pages no: 130
Edition language: English
Series: Culbard's Lovecraft
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Hooked on Books
Hooked on Books rated it
2.0 At the Mountains of Madness
I slogged through it- just barely! Had a hard time reading and understanding any of the visual descriptions.
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
1.0 At the Mountains of Madness
Ten percent of this book was an introduction to H.P. Lovecraft, a story that would cure insomnia (49 percent), thirty four percent which was about supernatural horror in literature, then a listing of all of Lovecraft's works with the last few pages devoted to links to something that I refuse to re-r...
Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it
3.0
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...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
3.0 At the Mountains of Madness
'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...
Sunsy
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H. P. LovecraftBerge des WahnsinnsHorror, KlassikerÜbersetzer: Rudolf HermsteinSuhrkamp Verlag, 29.09.1997TB, 192 Seiten, 7,99 €LPL records, 18.12.2008Spieldauer: 5 Std., 46 Min (ungekürzt)Sprecher: David NathanRegulärer Preis: 13,95 €im Premium-Abo 13,00 € oder 1 Guthabenim Flexi-Abo: 9,95 € Bewe...
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