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At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death.

Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.

At the Mountains of Madnessillustrated [kindle] eBook Howard Phillips Lovecraft

I have read this story many times. I wanted to see what a graphic novel treatment would look like.

It looks great. It perfectly captures the feel of turn-of-last-century Exploration, when Europeans and Americans went traipsing all over the globe.

It weaves all of Lovecraft's elements of the Old Ones, the dread Necronomicon, and the rest of his mythos together.

IF this is your first time with these story, you're lucky!

Product details File Size 350 KB Print Length 104 pages Publication Date August 5, 2014 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B00MH4IPHW

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At the Mountains of Madnessillustrated [kindle] eBook Howard Phillips Lovecraft Reviews

I'm not usually drawn to Culbard's style of illustration, but I thought it was an effective adaptation, and after some time has passed since I have read it, I have a strong memory of his images. Definitely worth a purchase if you want to see a visual representation of one of the most difficult of Lovecraft's works to represent visually.
If you like Lovecraft, you'll like this. It is very faithful to the original story. Or course, you miss a lot because it misses a lot of Lovecraft's language, but that is a symptom of the medium.
Being a huge fan of Lovecraft, I often find myself being let down by film and comic adaptations of his works. Often the issue is how to visually represent ideas that are by their nature supposed to be outside normal human conception. Culbard has done a outstanding job of taking one of Lovecraft's most influential and awe inspiring stories and rendering it in a form both visually appealing and true to the source material. I highly recommend picking up a copy for any Lovecraft fan you know. Of if you have any friends or family into comics but unaware of Lovecraft, this would be a great starting point to get into HPL's world.
For right now, this is the best graphic novel adaption I have seen so far of H.P. Lovecraft. I have a 12 year old girl and a 6 year old boy, and I'm trying to introduce them to H.P. Lovecraft. The film adaption of "Call of Cthulhu" is pretty good, but so is this masterpiece of a graphic novel. I read the original Mountains of Madness and found this adaption of Lovecraft's classic story was well done in this graphic novel making an interesting difficult story very accessible to children- kind of a feat of its own just to accomplish this nowadays!
I really like the cover art and any scenes of the vast scenery. I think the author stayed a little too close to the source material by focusing on the discussions between people, which is not that interesting visually.
Selfmadehero is an independent small press from the UK devoted to producing high quality graphic novels, including in printed form. They have been at it since 2007 but they just crossed my radar with the adaptation of At the Mountians of Madness by INJ Culbard. For those of us who are mythos fans there is more good stuff ahead, as they plan to publish some adaptations of HPL's other works including The Dunwich Horror in 2011. Mr. Culbard's website gives some samples of his work. I ordered my copy from the UK direct from the publisher; delivery over the Christmas rush was about 8 weeks. The production is certainly high quality, with an atmospheric cover and excellent colors.

Regarding this adptation, well, I really wish I liked it better. I found it to be just OK. My up front bias is that after years of familiarity with HP, ATMOM is my favorite story. The problem is parts of it are hard to adapt visually. I mean, how did the protagonist actually figure out with the Elder Things' pictographs actually meant? It sort of strains credulity in the novella and here, well how do you depict that in a comic? It makes me wonder what Guillermo Del Toro is going to do. And what is he going to do with tekeli-li. Mostly my impression was that the rest of the adaptation was decent. I am not familiar with any other graphic novel versions of the story and Mr. Culbard's effort is estimable enough; most artists would rather take on a shorter, less problematic or juicier tale so kudos for assailing the heights on his first Lovecraftian book. So what were the best parts? The drawings of mountains and machinery, ships and airplanes were all very well done. The atmospheric effect of the way the mountains were presented was a strong point. The Elder Thing and the autopsy were excellent. The crowning glory, however, was when the plane carrying Dyer and Danfort crested the mountain range to reveal the ancient remains of the city. On the other hand, I wasn't too taken with the drawing of people and I didn't find the shoggoth particularly horrific.

There is really no competition for the book; if you want a graphic novel adptation of ATMOM, this is the only one. It is not very expensive and offers a pleasant chance to while away a winter evening (it was snowing outside while I read my copy). You don't absolutely need to read HPL's novella first, although it helps (and you can get it online for free). I think most fans will enjoy it. I certainly did, although I wished for better art. It ranks about with the books Worlds of HP Lovecraft from Transfuzion. I like the art of Richard Corben in Haunt of Horror Lovecraft a bit better. I look forward to Selfmadehero's next Lovecraft book.
Seeing Mountains Of Madness for a great price, at the time 8.99 + shipping, it was definitely worth that and more. This is one of my favorite stories of Lovecraft and it definitely will surprise you with the delicious color pallet, choices of pacing and of course it is one of Lovecraft's best pieces.

Inspirational for one you can see where a lot of science fiction/horror film makers got so inspired from. Lovecraft always knows how to pull you in and with the beautiful art you will not be able to put it down. Production on the book was really nice, nice cover well bound, and the vibrancy of the books artistic pages are breath taking.
I have read this story many times. I wanted to see what a graphic novel treatment would look like.

It looks great. It perfectly captures the feel of turn-of-last-century Exploration, when Europeans and Americans went traipsing all over the globe.

It weaves all of Lovecraft's elements of the Old Ones, the dread Necronomicon, and the rest of his mythos together.

IF this is your first time with these story, you're lucky!