Synopsis "At the Mountains of Madness"

In H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying tale of science fiction and horror, an Antarctic geological expedition stumbles upon clues to an ancient alien civilization, and the origin of life on earth, but also awakens an ancient evil, a blasphemous darkness that threatens their very survival. Widely acknowledged as one of the most astonishing and significant works modern horror fiction, influencing many films, ranging from Howard Hawks's The Thing from Another World to Ridley Scott's Alien and Prometheus, Lovecraft's tale is an evocative and terrifying story, full of rich, atmospheric description and a brooding sense of darkness and intangible evil.

H. P. Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, August 20, 1890-Providence, March 15, 1937) better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer, author of stories and novels of horror and science fiction.

He is considered a great innovator of the horror story, to which he contributed his own mythology —the Cthulhu Mythos—, developed in collaboration with other authors, currently in force.

His work constitutes a classic of cosmic horror, a narrative line that deviates from traditional supernatural horror stories —satanism, ghosts—, including elements of science fiction such as, for example, alien races, time travel, or the existence of other dimensions.

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