"At the Mountains of Madness" / Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos

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  @leokeatonn · 5 years ago

  This man was born to read Lovecraft. He has the perfect tone to tell these stories, it adds a deeper sense of mystery as if you're hearing it from a first person account of the events. Like a story from your grandfather

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• TH

  @thebadshave503 · 3 years ago

  The best part of this story is how clear it makes one thing: Lovecraft feared penguins

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• MA

  @mattisvov · 4 years ago

  &quot;They where men!&quot;<br>I think this is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories how he explicitly humanizes one of his creatures.<br>First, for hours and hours, the Elder Things are presented as monsters, terrors.<br><br>Then, at the very end, the narrator suddenly sympathizes with them: Despite their weird shape and nigh indestructibility, they are a biologic life form like us, with an intelligence not unlike our own, and quite relatable drives and motivations. <br><br>That is a brilliant literary device: comparative horror. First show them as eldrich, alien and powerful. And then point out there are things that are scarier to them then they are to us.<br><br>The entire narrative is written as a warning. But I don&apos;t think the narrator wanted to warn about the Elder Things, or even the Shoggoths.<br>No, I think he wants to warn about the mountain to the south. And the things these immortal, antedeluvian monstrosites where TOO SCARED TO TALK ABOUT.

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• K_

  @K_Row86 · 6 years ago

  I drive an 18 wheeler. Audiobooks keep me awake at night. Having found all other audiobooks of Lovecraft to be rather dry, I was so glad to stumble upon your readings. Really helps set the mood on late night drives during the Halloween season.

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• ER

  @EricWojecire · 5 years ago

  Just a heads up, if you pass out listening to this you can have some pretty epic vivid dreams.

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• VA

  @vali6717 · 7 years ago

  I am alone, locked in a restaurant at about midnight with several hours to fill. &nbsp;This seems like an excellent way to keep myself awake.

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• JO

  @jon952 · 2 years ago

  A fun footnote for anyone geologically inclined - the mentioned &quot;Comanchian&quot; period is no longer recognized, it was split up between the Triassic and Jurassic. The fact that Lovecraft mentioned it at all speaks to the fact that he knew his stuff for the time - all his geological mentions are pretty well researched.

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• JA

  @JamesAdams-nd1td · 1 year ago

  I just love how by this point Lovecraft had built up a shared universe of stories, and he was willing to play with it: hence the Cthulhu references and the references to the Mi-Go hanging out in the Vermont hills.

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• JA

  @jacobcollier821 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Isn&apos;t it notable how much time is spent by Lovecraft explaining basic scientific principles we take for granted, such as relativity, continental drift, and even evolutions, both in art and biology? Principles which, granted some more than others, were brand new ideas at the time.

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• LI

  @liamwinter4512 · 7 years ago

  This has to be 87% the inspiration for the original &quot;The Thing&quot;.

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  @TheEldritchGod · 5 years ago

  I love listening to this. It brings me back to the days of my youth at Miskatonic University as a linebacker for the football team, The Battling Cephalopods. &nbsp;(GO PODS!) It seems like you couldn&apos;t swing a cat back then without hitting someone ranting about some sort of cosmic horror man was not meant to know.<br><br>Of course you should never swing a cat. I&apos;m sure we all know why.

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  @lobotomite9767 · 7 years ago

  I like to think that when Lovecraft was writing this he finished the sentence “queer cave mouths” and quietly said to himself..... “nice”

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