At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft is an author I am hit and miss with, even before accounting for him being especially racist, even for the 1920s and 30s. I enjoyed The Shadow Over Innsmouth but kind of bounced off The Call of Cthulhu. At the Mountains of Madness leaned toward the bounce end of the spectrum for me. It was short enough, and my knowledge that it was the shoggoth book got me through, but a good amount was just really dry. In the end, even the shoggoth encounter was really dry, basically just "Oh […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/03/23/at-the-mountains-of-madness-by-h-p-lovecraft/






