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Though he died an unknown, dejected pulp-magazine writer in 1937, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is now considered the first great “genius of weird fiction” (Peter Straub)—and there is no better guide through his universe than Leslie S. Klinger. Following the success of his New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft omnibus and The Call of Cthulhu’s essential Lovecraft stories, Klinger now returns this fall with AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS: And Other Tales of Weird Science, collecting nine science fiction stories from this “most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figure” (Alan Moore).
Joining him to introduce these Tales of Weird Science is Tamsyn Muir, whose bestselling Locked Tomb series burst onto the scene with Gideon the Ninth and took the sci-fi world by storm—carrying more than a touch of what she calls “that Lovecraft flavor of blasphemous rites and unspeakable suspicions and dark spaces between the stars.” Together, Muir and Klinger usher us into those dark spaces through stories like “From Beyond,” where a reckless experiment ruptures the thin membrane separating our world from one teeming with interdimensional lifeforms, while “The Shunned House” tells of the battle of a young man and his uncle against a monstrous presence buried within an abandoned dwelling. At the center of the collection is the novella “At the Mountains of Madness,” in which a team of Antarctic researchers discover remnants of a sprawling, ancient civilization—and the chilling truth of its eventual demise.
With Muir as introducer and Klinger as indefatigable guide through the peculiar, spine-tingling worlds Lovecraft unleashed, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is an essential edition for newcomers and devoted fans alike.
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction.
Leslie S. Klinger is the multi-award-winning editor and annotator of seven volumes in Liveright’s New Annotated Series as well as the collection The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Tamsyn Muir is the best-selling author of the Locked Tomb series. Her fiction has won the Locus and Crawford awards and has been nominated for many others. She lives in Oxford, England.