Mountains of Madness Revealed

ABOUT THIS BOOK In his celebrated novella At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft told of the discovery of a vast, alien city buried beneath Antarctic ice: millions of years old, filled with shocking secrets about the history of life on Earth, and not entirely uninhabited. After the Miskatonic University expedition of 1930 came to a disastrous end, further exploration was either discouraged or suppressed. The city of the Elder Things slept once more, and the world seemed safe from whatever the Mountains of Madness still harbored. Decades later, global warming melts ice caps and glaciers retreat. That which was once hidden is hidden no longer. So what happens when that horror-filled city of Elder Things and shoggoths is in plain sight, its existence impossible to deny? How will mankind deal with the realization we are masters of the Earth only by sheer chance? Something is stirring, that mastery may be coming to an end. What happens next? Denial? Exploitation? The rise of strange cults? Maybe even an ill-advised attempt at tourism? Or will the cosmic forces now awakened engulf the entire planet? Here are some of the answers: stories by Adrian Cole, Gordon Linzner, James Chambers, Melinda LaFevers, John R. Fultz, Harry Turtledove, James Van Pelt, Robert M. Price, Don Webb, John Shirley, Paul Di Filippo, Frederic S. Durbin, John Linwood Grant, Geoffrey Hart, Amdi Silvestri, Géza A.G. Reilly, and Darrell Schweitzer. Verse by Ann K. Schwader and Adam Bolivar. The Mountains of Madness . . . revealed. Table of Contents Introduction Darrell Schweitzer Climate of Fear Ann K. Schwader. Cold Storage Adrian Cole Beyond the Thaw Gordon Linzner Echoes from the Ice James Chambers New Birth Melinda LaFevers The Embrace of Elder Things John R. Fultz The Hill of the Beast Harry Turtledove Skinny Dipping with the Old Ones James Van Pelt The Unspeakable Spawning of the Proto-Shoggoths Robert M. Price The Water of Dhul Nun Don Webb A Boy and His Shoggoth John Shirley The Yog-Sothoth Policeman s Union Paul Di Filippo The Evening Calm Frederic S. Durbin Strange Perfumes of a Polar Sun John Linwood Grant At the Mountains of Magnates Geoffrey Hart In Everything a Sound Amdi Silvestri A Wind from the South Géza A.G. Reilly Down to a Sunless Sea Darrell Schweitzer The Ballad of the Black Mountain Adam Bolivar