

This author is a genius, but he's more Temperance Brennan genius than Charlie in the Chocolate Factory genius. So I snuggled with it in a darkened room intent on discovering this mind-blasting terror for myself.and dozed off.

In the barren, windswept Antarctic, an expedition uncovers strange fossils.and mind-blasting terror." The back of the book claims that this story is ".Lovecraft's indisputable masterpiece. I picked up "At the Mountains of Madness", wondering how I got to be 30 years old without reading something by this astounding genius. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." In fact, on the back of the particular book I'm reading Stephen King himself says, "H.P. I've read dozens of reviews by well known people who claim that Lovecraft is the virtuoso of horror, a terrifying read from start to finish, blah blah blah.
