The purpose of his writing is to dissuade a later expedition from following in his footsteps and falling to victim to the same horrors that he and his less-fortunate colleagues suffered in that frozen world lost to time. The first-person narrative carries the voice of a restrained academic in the form of Dr. And it has been further adapted numerous times since the original publication. There are narrative pieces that can be found in other works of his, but the science fiction bent to his writing and the horror of a desolate world like Antarctica blends together so well in this unique novella. In the 1930s, when Lovecraft wrote the horror novella, the continent of Anarctica was not fully explored so there was an aura of mystery surrounding the remote land. Lovecraft originally wrote At the Mountains of Madness in 1931, but it didn’t make its way into publication until 1936. The fate of the survivors is unknown as they descend into the dark. Readers return to the ill-fated Dyer expedition in the remote wasteland of Antarctica and follow longer as the professor uncovers a never-before-seen world with cosmic implications. That was where the first volume ended and the newly-released second volume began. But beyond a bone-chilling discovery and an inexplicable disaster, there was a revelation with the potential to change humanity’s understanding of the world’s history forever.Īnd it was in the bowels of an ancient and abandoned Antarctic city that Dyer and his partner started to rewrite the annals of life before humans. What began as an academic journey descended into a dark and bloody affair as otherworldly events brought the expedition to ruin. He was hesitant to speak about the experience at all, but the prospect of another voyage departing to expand on the research and exploration made it paramount that he advised them against their current course of action.
In the first volume of At the Mountains of Madness, the narrator William Dyer shared the first glimpse into his journey to Antarctica alongside other faculty from Miskatonic University and the other expeditionary team members.
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