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Everyone had an agenda and it just seemed like coincidence&mdash;and of little consequence&mdash;that they happened to end up in the small town of Cedar Falls nestled at the base of Bakers Mountain, deep in the ancient Taconic Mountain range. Completely involved, even obsessed, with their own pursuits, it was hardly surprising the visitors would be unaware of older agendas both within the dying town and up in the forests and ridges of the mountain looming above.<br><br>There was the discontented novelist fleeing his job and his family, hoping to regain his mojo with a young girlfriend and a new book; a mother in search of her long-estranged daughter, but finding first an unlikely romance with the proprietor who loved his failing bowling establishment like a child&mdash;at least when he wasn&#39;t making plans to burn it down for the insurance; a soap opera queen who thought she was stopping by for a simple PR gig for the PETA folks when the town was plagued by thousands of bats in search of a new home. Instead found herself revisiting Gretchen Foley, the frightened disturbed child she had been before emerging as the famous Amber Steele.<br><br>There were the two Native American friends who came to climb the mountain in search of the fabled quartz Spirit Stones of their Mohican ancestors, the young man who wanted to retrace the steps of his grandfather who once lived along the river that flowed through town. But instead he would come to grief and need to be carried down the mountain by the mysterious and seemingly ageless Boudine sisters who had led secluded lives high on the mountain as long as anyone could remember. Few knew where these strange women had their cabin, but the dying Randle Marsh did, and it was said that he visited the sisters often; was he trying to live on endlessly as dark rumors suggested the sisters did? The rustic Wayne Funt knew where they lived too, but he would leave them strictly alone until he and his dog Duke played a major role in the mayhem that broke out during the raging Christmas snowstorm that buried the town and the mountain.<br><br>This collision of clashing agendas was presided over by a sheriff who did the best he could to navigate a safe landing for as many as he could who shared the wild ride on this memorable, often frightening year. And if the result could often be laced with humor and absurdity, it was always tempered&mdash;sometimes tragically&mdash;with what has always been true: sometimes, deep in the heart of the New England mountains, there are things going on, things both lighter than air and darker than starless night.

The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless – or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones tens of millions of years old.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, in the year 1823, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses, protestant inhabitants of the Cottian Alps : with maps, plates, and an appendix, containing copies of ancient manuscripts, and other interesting documents in illustration of the history and manners of that extraordinary people / by William Stephen Gilly».

On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms. Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and misunderstandings, the group learns of Earth&#39;s secret history and legacy.<br>At the Mountains of Madness is a very good introduction to Lovecraft&#39;s mythology of the Old Ones and the glories and horrors that preceded humankind and that still linger in places. It is a good novella on it&#39;s own, and helpful to understanding events and creatures in his other works.<br><br>This new edition of Lovecraft&#39;s masterpiece includes two essays &quot;Notes On Writing Weird Fiction&quot; and &quot;Supernatural Horror in Literature&quot;.&Acirc; <br><br>This book has been specially formatted for devices that support EPUB3.