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At the Mountains of Madness is not HP Lovecraft's best work but it is, perhaps, his most interesting. Although he excelled at short horror stories, most of his attempts to write a more detailed world ended up a long way away from reality.
At the Mountains of Madness is different. It manages to hold on to that thread of reality and plausibility. We know the deep ocean holds secrets and undiscovered species, we know there are discoveries to be made under the Antarctic ice. Could these events happen? It seems unlikely, but many of the things that were discovered had been thought unlikey.
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