AttheMountainsofMadness

CONTENTS TITLE PAGE FRONTISPIECE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INTRODUCTION by China Miéville AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHRONOLOGY OF THE FICTION OF H. P. LOVECRAFT MODERN LIBRARY IS ONLINE AT WWW.MODERNLIBRARY.COM THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD COPYRIGHT H. P. LOVECRAFT Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the visionary writer generally regarded as the mastermind of modern horror fiction, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1890. The precocious only child of an ill-fated marriage, he endured a cloistered and traumatic upbringing. Lovecraft never knew his father, a traveling salesman of English ancestry who was institutionalized with syphilitic dementia in 1893. He was raised in his birthplace, the Victorian mansion of his maternal grandfather, by an overprotective mother and two maiden aunts. At the age of eight he d......