At the Mountains of Madness

''One of the greatest short novels in American literature and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.'' --Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author ''Lovecraft's fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.'' --Clive Barker ''With its atypically epic scope and clues to unraveling the Cthulhu mythos, it's no wonder this story inspires the utmost devotion of Lovecraft fans.'' -- Booklist ''Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness opens with a newspaper announcement of a voyage to Antarctica . . . From there, the book launches into the story of Dyer's own, earlier expedition to the Antarctic wasteland, one that culminated in murder and horror in the aforementioned mountains. Lovecraft was a master of writing about indescribable horrors whose visages violate the laws of nature in unsettling ways.'' -- Publishers Weekly '' At the Mountains of Madness ranks high among the horror stories of the English language.'' -- Time ''There is a melancholy, operatic grandeur in Lovecraft's most passionate work, like At the Mountains of Madness ; a curious elegiac poetry of unspeakable loss, of adolescent despair and an existential loneliness so pervasive that it lingers in the reader's memory, like a dream, long after the rudiments of Lovecraftian plot have faded.'' --Joyce Carol Oates