H. P. Lovecraft 2 hr 33 min read

An Antarctic expedition uncovers the frozen ruins, and frozen makers, of a civilization older than humanity, and learns why some doors should stay shut.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 novella follows a geologist's desperate warning against a new polar expedition, recounting the horrors his team found beneath the ancient ice: the Elder Things, the shoggoths, and the vast cyclopean city they built. A cornerstone of cosmic horror and a profound influence on all that followed. Read it for one of Lovecraft's greatest works, where science and dread meet at the bottom of the world.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

2 hr 33 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Howard V. Brown