spectru
4/8/2015
I started with an audiobook version read by William Roberts. He read it like a 1930s radio announcer reading a report, which in hindsight may have been appropriate. But early on, I switched to a version read by Edward Hermann, which I thought was much better.
This was the first Lovecraft I've read though I was familiar with his name. At the Mountains of Madness is billed as a horror story, I think because that is what Lovecraft wrote, but I would put it squarely in the science fiction genre.
Although the language is clearly intended to emphasize the horror - our narrator was repeatedly reluctant to reveal what they had discovered because of the sheer horror of it. It really wasn't very horrifying though. The book is novella length, but I think it might have made a better short story. I thought it dragged. Lovecraft spent so much time telling us how horrible it was that he never got around to telling us what it was that was so horrible. I must say that I was somewhat disappointed.
My version did not include the Other Tales of Terror