At the Mountains of Madness (1931)For whatever reason, and I have no ready theory for why it should be so, Horror has proven to be one of the most novel and enduring of America's literary forms. From Washington Irving and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems, to The Turn of the Screw (Henry James' only worthwhile work), on to the great pulp writers like Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, right on up to the overrated but ridiculously successful Stephen King and the innovative but underappreciated Dan Simmons and Robert McCammon, we just keep churning out great horror writers and stories. HP Lovecraft earned his place in this company with his supremely creepy short fiction, which injected both intergalactic elements and the mythos that he created involving the dread text of the Necronomicon. At the Mountains of Madness is perhaps his finest work and is obviously the forerunner of such subsequent horror staples as The Thing and Alien. It tells the story of a doomed party of Antarctic explorers who uncover the remains of a lost civilization, the Old Ones. Turns out, these Old Ones bioengineered the Earth, but were vanquished by their own creations, who have now been reawakened by these unwitting explorers. Lovecraft's writing is mannered and affected, which may keep him from a mass audience, but it retains a certain gothic power and he continues to be a cult favorite. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B+) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: H. P. Lovecraft -The H. P. Lovecraft Archive -BLOG: Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein -S. T. Joshi Blog -WIKI: H. P. Lovecraft Wiki -WIKIPEDIA: THe Colour Out of Space -S. T. Joshi Blog -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (Faded Page) -ENTRY: Data Page for “The Colour out of Space” (hplovecraft.com) -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (H. P. Lovecraft Wiki) -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (ISF Data Base) -INDEX: H.P. Lovecraft (Project Gutenberg) -INDEX: H. P. Lovecraft (Internet Archive) -VIDEO ARCHIVES: H. P. Lovecraft (YouTube) -AUDIO ARCHIVE: H. P. Lovecraft (LibriVox) -ESSAY: Supernatural Horror in Literature (H. P. Lovecraft, 1927, The Recluse) -AUDIO: The Color Out Of Space by H P Lovecraft (Trey Downey, 31 October 2024< The Great Stories) -AUDIO: The Colour Out of Space (LibriVox) -AUDIO: "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft (A HorrorBabble Production) -VIDEO ARCHIVES: “colour out of space” (YouTube) -ETEXT: Colour Out of Space (Project Gutenberg) -PDF: The Colour Out of Space (Repositorio) -ESSAY: The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft: Conjuring horror from the darkest deep down things. (Ed Simon,July 10, 2024, Hedgehog Review) -ESSAY: Bridges Across the Void in H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythos (Nathaniel Birzer, November 17, 2023, Online Library of Liberty) -ESSAY: The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft: Conjuring horror from the darkest deep down things. (Ed Simon, 7/10/24, Hedgehog Review) -ESSAY: “A dismal throng of vague spectres”: Reading Knowledge and Identity in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” Through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Janice Lynne Deitner Articles, Issue 13 2024, Irish Journal of American Studies) -ESSAY: Terrifying vistas of reality: H P Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror stories, was a philosopher who believed in the total insignificance of humanity (Sam Howard, 3/28/24, Aeon) -ESSAY: The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft (Benjamin Welton, The Airship) -ESSAY: H. P. Lovecraft, Prophet Of AGI: We've entered the age of the three-letter agency -- AGI, ASI, NHI -- and Lovecraft saw it coming. (JON STOKES, APR 12, 2023, Return) -ESSAY: The Tricky Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft: A little racist, sometimes a bit dull, but undeniably influential and wholly original. (BILL RYAN, OCTOBER 13, 2022, The Bulwark) -ESSAY: H.P. Lovecraft's Afterlife: He was an atheist and a nihilist, and he's more influential than ever. (JOHN J. MILLER, March 15, 2005, National Review) -ESSAY: Book vs film: The Colour Out Of Space by HP Lovecraft (Alexander Lane, 12/02/2024) -ESSAY: It’s Just a Color, but it Burns: Discussing Color Out of Space (2019) in Film and Text ( Trevor Ruth, The Baram House) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (TV Tropes) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (Super Summary) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (Study.com) -ESSAY: ANNIHILATION Is the Peak of Cosmic HorrorKyle Anderson, Feb 28 2018, Nerdist) -ESSAY: Green Mountain Mysteries: A Taxonomy of Vermont Noir: Sarah Stewart Taylor considers the many fictional horrors and murders of her beloved home state (Sarah Stewart Taylor, 8/15/24, Crime Reads) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (Sean McBride) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Stuff Jeff Reads) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (James Reasoner, Rough Edges) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Jerry Jose, 10th and Noble -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Lance Eaton, By Any Other Nerd) -REVIEW: of FILM: -FILMOGRAPHY: H. P. Lovecraft (IMDB) -FILMOGRAPHY: The Color Out of Space (2019) (IMDB) -WIKIPEDIA: Color Out of Space (film) -FILMOGRAPHY: Color Out of Space (Metacritic) -FILMOGRAPHY: Color Out of Space (Rotten Tomatoes) -ESSAY: Books‘Annihilation’ and the Adaptive Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” (Meagan Navarro, 1/21/19, Bloody Disgusting) -VIDEO ESSAY: The Annihilation Movie is Lovecraftian?! (Modern Fantastic, May 26, 2021( -ESSAY: The Lovecraftian nature of 'Annihilation' (Harris Culbertson, 4/06/23, City Live) -ESSAY: Unspeakable Cinema: The 5 Most Lovecraftian Horror Films (Fride Cinema, January 24, 2020) ESSAY: On the other side of destruction: Lovecraft, annihilation and the self (Laurence Barratt-Manning, March 2019, Overland) ESSAY: Alex Garland’s Most Underrated Movie is a Cosmic Horror Masterpiece: “It'll grow until it encompasses everything.” (Alex Welch, Feb. 20, 2024, Inverse) ESSAY: ESSAY: ESSAY: -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Matthew Pungitore, DMR Books) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Tom Chick, Quarter of Three) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (By Matt Ruff) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (C. T. Phipps, Before We Go Blog) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Matthew Kirshenblatt, The Horror Doctor) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Cliff Evans, A Lifetime in Dark Rooms) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Theresa DeLucci, Nightfire) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Christian Zilko, Alison Foreman, Indie Wire) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Lúcio Reis-Filho, SFRA Review) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Avery Anderson, Tulane Hullabaloo) Book-related and General Links: -H.P. Lovecraft Archive -The Cthulhu Mythos: A Guide (Joseph F. Morales) -H.P. Lovecraft (Alan Gullette) -Iä, Shub-Niggurath!: H.P. Lovecraft Page -REVIEW: THE DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHERS By H. P. Lovecraft (Edna Stumpf, NY Times Book Review: IN SHORT) -REVIEW: H.P Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi (Paul T. Riddell, Tangent) -ESSAY: The King of Weird (Joyce Carol Oates, NY Review of Books) H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi BOOKS BY H.P. LOVECRAFT The Dunwich Horror and Others with texts edited by S.T. Joshi At the Mountains of Madness & Other Novels edited by S.T. Joshi Dagon and Other Macabre Tales edited by S.T. Joshi Miscellaneous Writings edited by S.T. Joshi Selected Letters edited by S.T. Joshi Vol. I: 1911-1924 (out of print) Vol. II: 1925-1929, $10.00 Vol. III: 1929-1931 (forthcoming) Vol. IV: 1932-1934, $12.50 Vol. V: 1934-1937, $12.50 -ESSAY: Julian Symons: The Heavy Fantastic -ESSAY: Why Lovecraft Still Matters: The Magical Power of Transformative Fiction by Don Webb -ESSAY: The Poetry of H. P. LOVECRAFT by L. Sprague de Camp (as edited by Jonathan Vos Post) -ESSAY: Calling Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft's Magick Realism by Erik Davis -ESSAY: H. P. Lovecraft and the Myth of the 20th Century (Joseph F. Morales) -ESSAY: Poe & Lovecraft by Robert Bloch |
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