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At the Mountains of Madness is a science-fiction horror novella by the American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931.Rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length, [1] it was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories.
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,552 copies. The true first edition has no head- or tailbands and features a green dustjacket (as depicted right). (Later states of the dustjacket are red and orange.)
The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones [1] and Elder Ones [2]) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos.The beings first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story "The Dreams in the Witch-House" ().
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, a collection of Lovecraft's work; Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness, a 2006 radio performance of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness; Mountain of Madness, an episode of The Simpsons; The Mountains of Madness, an audio/visual musical adaptation of the works of H.P. Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness includes a detailed account of the circumstances of the shoggoths' creation by the extraterrestrial Elder Things. Shoggoths were initially used to build the cities of their masters. Though able to "understand" the Elder Things' language, shoggoths had no real consciousness and were controlled through hypnotic suggestion.
The book collects nineteen short stories by various authors, with an introduction by the editor. All share the setting of the ice-buried Antarctic city of the Elder Things and shoggoths originally described by H. P. Lovecraft in his 1930 Cthulhu Mythos novella At the Mountains of Madness, which in the anthology's premise has been revealed to the modern world as horrible fact through the ...