From the Bookshelf of Classics Without All the Class…

[close] Lovecraft’s classic tale of Antarctic science-terror, At the Mountains of Madness, follows geologist Dyer and his team of experts—including Pabodie, the engineer, Lake, the biologist, and Danforth, the neurasthenic youth—as they traipse across our southernmost continent, taking bores of ancient strata of rock. Sane men going insane in an utterly blank terrain.Lovecraft’s vision of an other world within our own world is not fantasy, nor the type of “gee-whiz, wouldn’t that be somethin!” science fiction in which the latest not-even-practical-enough-to-merit-being-called-an-advance “advances” are spun forward into fabulous new iterations. Lovecraft builds his fiction with meticulous attention to the natural world.