Mountains of Madness

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Mountains of Madness is a fictional, remote Antarctic mountain range central to H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror novella "At the Mountains of Madness."

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Mountains of Madness canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Fictional location
Fictional mountain range
appearsInWork At the Mountains of Madness
architecturalStyleInFiction Cyclopean
Non-Euclidean
associatedWith Ancient alien city
Elder Things
Shoggoths
belongsToMythosElement Non-human architecture
Pre-human Earth history
countryOfOrigin United States (literary origin)
createdBy H. P. Lovecraft
dangerLevelInFiction Lethal
describedAs Alien
Remote
Vast
discoveredBy Miskatonic University Antarctic expedition
expeditionLeaderInFiction Professor William Dyer
firstAppearance At the Mountains of Madness
firstPublicationYear 1936
genre Cosmic horror
hasClimate Extreme cold
hasFeature Hidden ancient city
Perpetual ice and snow
Towering peaks
influenced Comics adaptations
Film and animation proposals
Later Antarctic horror fiction
Lovecraftian role-playing games
inspiredBy Real-world Antarctic exploration
Transantarctic Mountains
language English (original description)
locatedIn Antarctica
Fictional Antarctica
medium Literature
narrativeRole Central setting of the expedition
Source of cosmic horror revelations
partOf Antarctic interior
linked to: Antarctic regions
relatedWork The Call of Cthulhu
The Shadow Out of Time
symbolizes Cosmic indifference
Limits of scientific inquiry
themeAssociation Ancient civilizations
Forbidden knowledge
Human insignificance
universe Cthulhu Mythos
visibilityInFiction Rarely visited
warningFunctionInStory Deters future Antarctic exploration

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At the Mountains of Madness featuresLocation Mountains of Madness
Eldritch Horror hasExpansion Mountains of Madness
subject linked to: Eldritch Horror board game
Danforth travelsTo Mountains of Madness