![]() At turns, the men are fascinated by the findings but also have a sense of foreboding in the closing pages, they find not only their colleague, but so much more.Īs with the first volume, Tanabe proves how skilled he is with interpreting Lovecraft’s cosmic horror. Dyer and Danforth find murals in one of the buildings that collaborate with the mythology recorded in the Necronomicon, specifically the Elder Things, the shoggoths, the Mi-go, and the spawn of Cthulhu. Their flight path leads them to a massive abandoned city of stone buildings featuring mysterious architecture not found before in any human civilization. One of Lake’s men is discovered to be missing in the closing pages, and volume two picks up with Dyer and a graduate student named Danforth taking off in an airplane to find the missing man. In the first volume (See my review here.), one of the explorers (by the name of Lake) takes some of the men with him as they search farther south for prehistoric proof that the continent once had a tropical climate however, Dyer loses contact with Lake, so he takes a group to find Lake and eventually finds a gruesome scene amongst unusual-looking rocks. As with many of Lovecraft’s tales, our educated narrator this time is geologist and Miskatonic University professor, William Dyer. At the Mountains of Madness was written by Lovecraft in early 1931 and recounts a disastrous expedition in Antarctica in the autumn of 1930. ![]()
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