The Dark World of H.P. Lovecraft Volume 6: At the Mountains of Madness
A party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Professor William Dyer, discover fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains in Antarctica.
At the Mountains of Madness was originally written in 1931 by H. P. Lovecraft who is considered by some to be the inventor of modern horror. Many believe that in this novella lay the roots of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of modern day religion.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. Stephen King called H.P. Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
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