{"id":1191,"date":"2026-08-16T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolf.campubl.com\/?post_type=myreads&#038;p=1191"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:37:32","slug":"at-the-mountains-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"myreads","link":"https:\/\/wolf.campubl.com\/?myreads=at-the-mountains-of-madness","title":{"rendered":"At The Mountains of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-e15afb30 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);flex-basis:33.3%\">\n<style data-wp-block-html=\"css\">\n._df_thumb {\n    width: 305px;\n    display: block;\n    margin-left: auto !important;\n    margin-right: auto !important;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {\n    ._df_thumb {\n        width: 100%;\n        display: block;\n        margin-left: auto !important;\n        margin-right: auto !important;\n    }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"_df_thumb \" id=\"df_883\"  _slug=\"at-the-mountains-of-madness\" data-title=\"at-the-mountains-of-madness\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumb=\"https:\/\/wolf.campubl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cover-1.png\" thumbtype=\"\" >At The Mountains of Madness<\/div><script class=\"df-shortcode-script\" nowprocket type=\"application\/javascript\">window.option_df_883 = {\"outline\":[],\"autoEnableOutline\":\"false\",\"autoEnableThumbnail\":\"false\",\"overwritePDFOutline\":\"false\",\"backgroundImage\":\"https:\\\/\\\/wolf.campubl.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/63a9be9945e295b9341dc00d13406b76.jpg\",\"direction\":\"1\",\"pageSize\":\"0\",\"source\":\"https:\\\/\\\/wolf.campubl.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/h-p-lovecraft_at-the-mountains-of-madness-1-20.pdf\",\"wpOptions\":\"true\"}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();}<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0\">Click to read sample \ud83d\udcd6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:13px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fca99130 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><h1 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:900;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-custom-color-3-color has-xx-large-font-size has-evans-font-family\">At The Mountains of Madness<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-custom-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-container-content-72558541 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">H.P. Lovecraft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-82c4478a wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"min-height:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-container-content-72558541 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><em><strong>At the Mountains of Madness<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a novella by American horror writer\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft, written in February and March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of\u00a0<em>Astounding Stories<\/em>. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft&#8217;s death. Lovecraft scholar\u00a0S. T. Joshi\u00a0describes the novella as representing the decisive &#8220;demythology&#8221; of the\u00a0Cthulhu Mythos\u00a0by reinterpreting Lovecraft&#8217;s earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-container-content-72558541 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">The story is written in the first-person perspective by the geologist\u00a0William Dyer, a professor from\u00a0Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to\u00a0Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains taller than the Himalaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-6 wp-container-content-72558541 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Lovecraft had a lifelong interest in Antarctic exploration; biographer S.T. Joshi wrote that &#8220;Lovecraft had been fascinated with the Antarctic continent since he was at least 12 years old, when he had written several small treatises on early Antarctic explorers.&#8221; At about the age of nine, inspired by W. Clark Russell&#8217;s 1887 book\u00a0<em>The Frozen Pirate<\/em>, Lovecraft had written &#8220;several yarns&#8221; set in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4d6339ab wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dbfbc6bc wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;background-color:#fff6e6;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-evans-font-family has-small-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-container-content-69bc4bdf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">RECOMMENDED BY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:0\">Bourgy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-style:italic;font-weight:600\">\u201cI could not help feeling that they were evil things\u2014mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">\u25b8 I&#8217;ve always loved the vivid imagery in the writing of H.P. Lovecraft, eliciting such strong emotions when read, like you are the character feeling the impending doom and dread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-color-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\">\u2605 \u2605 \u2605 \u2605 \u2606<br>4 \/ 5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to read sample \ud83d\udcd6 H.P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness\u00a0is a novella by American horror writer\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft, written in February and March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of\u00a0Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft&#8217;s death. Lovecraft scholar\u00a0S. T. 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