From outside came the sounds of
whirring propellers and rumbling engines. I looked through my window
and saw an airplane standing perfectly still in front of my house.
Renowned Mythos
aficionado Ken Hite retells H P Lovecraft’s classic "At the Mountains
of Madness" in this story of childhood terror.
Late one evening after
the city has gone to sleep, young Danforth boards the mysterious
airplane that waits for him: the Antarctic Express bound for the South
Pole. When he arrives, Professor Dyer offers the boy the chance to
learn any thing he desires. The boy modestly asks to probe the depths
of the eldritch city of the Old Ones. The request is granted. On the
way his memory is lost while fleeing from the piping shrieks of the
shuggoths. On Christmas Eve, the boy finds his memory of that
whistling cry returns. For you see, all who visit the Old Ones’ city
forever hear the sound of the shuggoths.
The Antarctic
Express features 32 pages of
full-color illustration, and is sure to be a hit with the newest
generation of Lovecraft fans and their parents. Also look for Where
the Deep Ones Are in the Mini Mythos series.
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