Books : At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror
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by: H. P. Lovecraft
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345329455
ISBN: 0345329457
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 13, 1991
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: September 13, 1991
Sales Rank: 16563
Studio: Del Rey
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Product Description:
A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Perfect story, Defective Book
I loved this book. For me, I was not really terrified, but I just love Myths and things like that, so I just kept on reading and loved every minute of it. However, I would find a different book that contains these stories because I was only half way through At the Mountains of Madness when the pages started to come off of the Spine of the book. But trust me, you will be missing out on a great read if you do not read these stories.
Five stars for the Stories
One star for the Book's ... Read More
Rating:  - I'm really sorry
I'm really sorry. I tried so hard to enjoy this book. But the fact is that this is the longest, most boring, complicated, overdone book I've ever read. Had to go over 2 or 3 times on the same page to get the picture of what Mr. Lovecraft wanted to describe. It's terribly overdone.
If you want something TERROR, you can read "The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Edgar Allan Poe, and believe me, you will get your fix of starvation, murder, cannibalism, sorrow and regret. All in the only ... Read More
Rating:  - Lovecraft's name is the only place you'll find literary craft.
Honestly. Apart from being, without a Cthullu-shaped-shadow of a doubt, the most repetitive writer ever, his stuff is just mindbogglingly dull. And I've read them all, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, M.R. James, etc ... I used to be a fan of this kind of thing in my teen years, and lapped it up, but for some curious reason, in the country where I grew up, you couldn't get hold of Lovecraft in the early 80's. I think their might have even been some weird attempt not to disseminate the works of Lovecraft, ... Read More
Rating: - mountains of much
All the hype that I had read and heard about it,just didn't measure up. I was disappointed at how repetitive it was, the long drawn out descriptions that added up to nothing,the first person narrative that was devoid of any sort of suspence with no dialogue throughout. It was comparable to something that was written by a high-school student without a Thesaurus. This is the longest it's ever taken me to read a couple hundred pages.....
Rating: - The stories are great, but............
I'm a big fan of HPL and try to get everything out by him. But i must say that there are many better one-volume introduction to HPL out there right now. Try The Call of Cthulhu (Penguin Modern Classics) The Call of Cthulhu (Penguin Modern Classics) This is imho the best introduction to HPL.
The stories get 5 stars, this volume gets 2.
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