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Literature

At the Mountains of Madness

A Miskatonic expedition finds an Antarctic civilization older than humanity, then discovers that some of its inhabitants have awakened into a future they cannot recognize. At the Mountains of Madness turns scientific exploration into a reconstruction of alien history and, finally, a desperate encounter with that history’s surviving consequences.

14 min read · 2,760 words

Entities & creatures

Elder Things

The Elder Things are the fivefold, star-headed beings whose fossil-like bodies and Antarctic city reveal an immense prehuman civilization. At the Mountains of Madness reconstructs their biology, engineered life, wars, art and decline, then turns an apparent monster attack into a disturbing encounter between displaced explorers.

9 min read · 1,821 words

Entities & creatures

Shoggoths

Shoggoths are mutable organisms created by the Elder Things as living labor. Their changing bodies, developing intelligence, resistance to control and survival beneath the Antarctic ruins turn the history of an ancient civilization into an immediate threat for Dyer and Danforth.

7 min read · 1,354 words