This story is rather gripping and convincingly written. As a personal side-note I shall make a small comment here that Cthulhu is by far not the most powerful of the Old Ones and Cthulhu has considerably more to him than just tentacle monster octopus thing in the sky – even if this story doesn’t directly involve Cthulhu. Lovecraft, father of the ubiquitous Cthulhu Mythos, and several other unconnected but still highly regarded stories. The story At The Mountains Of Madness is among the longest single stories by the famous H.P. But barren lands and long abandoned caves are not all that this scientist and his ilk discovered… The intention of the expedition was to find – and if discovered excavate – rock and plant specimens from deep within the continental shelf. The basic plot of the story is as follows: The narration comes from a surviving member of a scientific expedition to the Antarctic plateau as an attempt to prevent a foolish return to the areas excavated by their crew and prevent what happened to them occurring to others. I have only recently returned from my sojourn and fully intend to review the story as promised. It seems that Yog-Sothoth and his lesser companions had taken note of my interest in the Mountains. Hello again to my readers! I apologise for being somewhat missing in action recently.
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