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“At The Mountains Of Madness is one of Lovecraft’s longer contributions to speculative fiction, and it develops the Cthulhu Mythos much more fully. It’s about an Antarctic expedition that penetrates further into the continent than any expedition preceding it, and discovers evidence of a long-abandoned city. As they begin to explore the city, they piece together a story about extraterrestrial entities that preceded human life on the planet by millennia. They had conflicts among themselves, and had servants called shoggoths, who were amorphous blobs of protoplasm that could be shaped in different ways… So, we get a whole history of another civilization, a very powerful one, traces of which are still present in our universe. It’s really an exercise in world-building.” Read more...
Jeffrey Weinstock, Literary Scholar
