At the Mountains of Madness

A dark, dazzling adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s best-known tale is back in print

“For a second we gasped in admiration . . . and then vague horror began to creep into our souls.” 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 tak...