At the Mountains of Madness, and Other Novels

from questbird

This is not a review of the whole omnibus but only the tale 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'. It is not the first time I have read this story, though whether the second or third time I don't recall. It is the first time I've read it for itself and not part of the collection. I enjoyed it much ...

from saltmanz

I checked this out from the library to get a taste of Lovecraft. It's an okay collection, spoiled mainly by the final four Randolph Carter stories--to be fair, the last story, Through the Gates of the Golden Key, isn't bad, but The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is so dreadfully dull that I took a...

from GeraldLange

I'm not a big Lovecraft fan. His stories are predictable, after a fashion, and his descriptive ability leaves much to be desired. Sandy Peterson has accomplished more for the Lovecraft Mythos than old Howie himself could ever have. All of that aside, "At the Mountains of Madness" has to be, in my...

from Michael.Rimmer

The horror in At the Mountains of Madness is not in sadistic descriptions of slashings, torturings, mutilations and bloodletting, but rather in the slow build-up of the feeling that humanity is not alone in the universe and that the other inhabitants, if they consider us at all, don't really thin...

from GrumpyBob

This volume contains Lovecraft's two novellas, "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". For those who love the pulp fiction genre, this represents Lovecraft at the top of his game, with sustained storytelling. For those who dislike the genre, probably pretty tiresome.